August 19 is National Aviation Day In 1946, Congress established National Aviation Day “to commemorate the Wright brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.” The Wright brothers successfully made the first powered...
The 1950s and 1960s were a busy time for U.S. fighter jet development. Aircraft like the P-80 Shooting Star, introduced in 1945, brought America into the jet age. The war in Korea demanded even quicker, more agile fighters to stem the heavy U.S. losses of P-80s to...
It’s low light, and the blue sky melts into brilliant oranges and pinks as the sun sets low on the ocean’s horizon. The silhouette of a very large cargo ship sails quietly across the sea, fourteen miles out of the Port of Charleston (SC) on its way to destinations...
Cruising silently off the coast of northeastern Russia, a very unique weapon patrols the deep, dark, cold waters of the East Siberian Sea. Launched in December of 1959, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), a nuclear-powered submarine, is the first of its kind to...
Hurricane Hunter Aircraft In the Atlantic Ocean, they are called hurricanes. In the Pacific, typhoons. When they are approaching the United States, not everyone is trying to avoid the storm. Some men and women jump into aircraft and fly directly into the...
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