An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand), English wrench (Turkey) or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is any of various styles of spanner…

Enlarge this image Lou Conter, pictured at the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in 2016, died on Monday. He…

Gerhard Barkhorn was a legendary, although contentious, aviator who flew for the Luftwaffe  during World War II. Nonetheless, he earned a vast number…

Lieutenant Edwin Wright of the 404th Fighter Group shows off the damage caused by flak to his P-47 Thunderbolt. USAAF a the airfield…

In 1862, Richard Jordan Gatling invented a multi-barreled, rotating gun operated by a hand crank that could fire up to 200 rounds a…

Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900) On January 24, 1860, Belgian engineer Étienne Lenoir  was granted a patent on his newly developed internal combustion engine. Lenoir’s…

Adolphe Sax (1814-1894) On November 6, 1814, Belgian musical instrument designer and musician  Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax was born. Besides playing flute and clarinet, he…

Share this article On Jan. 11, 1944 the B-17Gs of the 401st Bomb Group (BG) were bombing Me 110 fighter production plants at…

It's easiest to think about the AV-8 and its variants as collectively the American Harriers, with the AV-8B as the definitive version. The…

It could have been a game-changer. The twin-engine, single-seat Westland Whirlwind, produced by a small company in southwest England, looked like a formidably…

Roald Dahl was not an admirer of the Gloster Gladiator. “They have taut canvas wings, covered with magnificently inflammable dope, and underneath there…

On December 16, 1945, test pilot Lt. Col. Fred J. Ascani and two friends from his days at West Point took off from…