In the wake of WWII, the Department of the Air Force became a stand-alone service on September 18, 1947, created by the National Security Act signed into law by President Harry Truman.

The crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 was supposed to check in every half-hour along the route. As the aircraft crossed into Yukon, they radioed the tiny outpost of Snag to say that there ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America ... Chief Medical Officer Colonel William C. Gorgas arrives in Panama with a team of seven men.

For paragliding instructor Mike Belbas, this experience was life-changing. He first came to Verbier in 1997 for a ski season with his twin brother, Stuart. After taking a paragliding course ...

Tandem paragliding and other extreme sports such as mountain biking, skydiving and river rafting are often epic adventures ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

Efforts to free a container ship wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal have succeeded. The 400m (1300ft) Ever Given was stuck in the mud and sand right across the southern end of the canal since ...

The MK 54 Lightweight Torpedo was previously known as the Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo (LHT). The MK 54 Mod 0 Lightweight Torpedo integrates existing torpedo hardware and software from the MK 46 ...

Traffic in the Panama Canal fell by 29 percent over the past year due to a severe drought linked to climate change, the canal's operator said late Tuesday. The volume of cargo shipped through the ...

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