A WW2 aircraft engineer who was born and bred near the Old Kent Road celebrated his 100th birthday this week. William Henning ...
You've likely seen the iconic image before - a woman in a red polka-dot bandana, rolling up her sleeve and flexing her muscle ...
The Fairey Battle, a British-built single-engine light bomber aircraft, was conceived by the Fairey Aircraft Company and ...
Her resolve at such a young age was remarkable, even by modern standards, and in her lifetime she overcame discrimination and ...
On 17th April 1939, a franchise agreement was signed with the Coca-Cola Company, leading to the formation of the Ulster Iced ...
Marine amphibious tractors burn after being hit by Japanese mortar shells during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (U.S. Marine ...
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb wrote the song titled “Rosie the Riveter.”  The song’s name would be the identity of an estimated six million women who took wartime jobs ...
King County International Airport-Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, known as one of the busiest non-hub airports in the U.S., ...
Walter, a WWII riveter for Corsair ... as a riveter at the Rohr Aircraft Corp. in California shortly after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. At the factory, suitors swarmed the dark ...
The aerospace manufacturer provided hundreds of jobs in Abington for more than a century, with environmental concerns complicating whether or not SPS should rebuild.