planes

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/17/2019
  

  World War II Planes Can Still Fly, but Who Will Keep Them Flying?

  As generations of pilots and mechanics age, will there be enough young people to keep the planes flying?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Celebrating the First Trans-Atlantic Flight. No, It Wasn’t Lindbergh’s.

  A Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It was not nonstop.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-18-14
  

  What if the missing Malaysia plane is never found?

  Don't think it couldn't happen -- Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, either.

• SOURCE: Discovery
  5-29-13
  

  Amelia Earhart's plane found?

  A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati might represent the remains of the Electra, the two-engine aircraft legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was piloting when she vanished on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.Released by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating Earhart's last, fateful flight, the images show an "anomaly" resting at the depth of about 600 feet in the waters off Nikumaroro island, some 350 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island....

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• May 8: Victory in Europe Day

  by Robert Huddleston

  An American soldier with a captured Heinkel He 162 Volksjager in 1945. Credit: Wiki Commons.In late spring of 1945, the conflict in Europe ended, not with a whimper but a bang. On April 30, Adolf Hitler put the barrel of a gun to his right temple and pulled the trigger. VE-day, May 8, 1945 soon followed as the Nazis agreed to an "unconditional surrender."