Forgotten First Flight Across the South Atlantic
It took three floatplanes and 79 days, but a pair of Portuguese airmen succeeded in crossing the South Atlantic by air five years before Lindbergh’s famous flight
Marines Were on the Front Lines the Night Lincoln Was Shot
Leathernecks witnessed the assassination and played a role in the roundup of the conspirators
Washington’s Survival Depended on Makeshift Flotilla
Small force of Navy ships battled Confederate guns to keep the Potomac open for traffic
What We Learned From…The Battle of Mollwitz, 1741
Frederick invaded Silesia, Maria Theresa dispatched a 20,000-man army under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg to eject him, and the War of the Austrian Succession was on
Gremlins!
It’s an old pilot’s tale: the idea that airplanes are sometimes infested with tiny mischief makers
Spitfire vs. Hurricane: First RAF Combat of World War II
Eighty years ago, the air war over Britain did not start well for the Royal Air Force in a “friendly fire” incident involving Spitfires and Hurricanes
The Superhighways of the Industrial Revolution Were Canals
Bad roads and mountains made ditches and locks the most modern mode of transportation—for a while
