The Vought V-173, or "Flying Pancake," defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape. Invented in the ...
In Long Beach, California's historic and protected Breakers Hotel is slated to return in November in a new deal with the ...
IN LYME CENTER. HIS FATHER WAS THE BAPTIST CHURCH MINISTER. ANOTHER FACT, COMMANDER REED WAS NOT THE ONLY MAN WHO WAS FIRST ...
In his novel “The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth depicts the rise to the presidency in the late 1930s of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made the first transatlantic solo ...
This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair ...
Nicholson pointed out that Lindbergh turned into a global idol overnight after he made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927. The publicity-shy Lindbergh became a constant and ...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh endured quietly Charles Augustus Lindbergh’s fame, the tragedy of a kidnapping, her husband’s descent from his pedestal of public divinity, and the publication of two ...
He succeeds because for much of his book he is a silent witness, allowing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Charles ... Lindbergh, Mr. Brands does not say, because Roosevelt never directly ...
With the influence of Charles Lindbergh, the development of the DC ... It became the first airline to hire the first African-American flight attendant in 1958, the first airline to regularly ...