Happening soon: Fool House - The Ultimate 90's Dance Party: Millennium Tour Live in Concert on the Grand Rapids Patch calendar ...

The Great War was a fascinating time for airplanes – the Wright brothers had just recently invented the airplane in 1903, and militaries found out mounting machine guns (only after figuring out how ...

The replica, Sophie, pays homage to the original Sopwith 1½ Strutter, a versatile British biplane introduced during the First World War. This pioneering aircraft was notable for being the first ...

On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island’s Great South Bay with his student ...

World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father's war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing his anguished screams in the dark of sleepless nights. For ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and I’m hung over in the hull gunner of an M36 Jackson ...