Recently, I had the very good fortune to make a pilgrimage with my good friend Dr. John Daley to Monett, Missouri to visit an F-4 Phantom displayed on a ...

I think it’s almost inevitable as one gets older that you start wondering about all the stuff that’s been accumulating around the house over the years. ...

A couple of days ago, while taking my usual look though the “On this day” section of Wikipedia, I noticed an article about an air crash in the United ...

It may be the grim influence of Halloween, or the fact that I was reading Wikipedia again, but I happened to discover an article describing the second ...

I saw a picture on Facebook a couple of days ago that I thought was a faked-up steampunk-homage reconstruction of a racing seaplane with an impossibly large ...

December sees us starting the tenth year of this blog, which is something of a miracle in itself. I would like to thank all the terrific people ...

Last night (2/12/24) on Antiques Roadshow a lady brought in an A-2 horsehide leather jacket which bore the inscription “Prowlin’ Tom”, a cartoon black ...

My sister sent me a link to a BBC News article about a new exhibition at Britain’s National Archives called “Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War ...

There is so much I wanted to say about the little helicopter Ingenuity which became the first man-made object to fly (conduct a powered and ...

Back in the early days of this blog I mentioned Miles Tripp’s book The Eighth Passenger (if you haven’t read it, find a copy and read it). For those of ...