How women played a crucial role in halting Hitler’s terrorizing V2 rockets, the weapons that reshaped modern warfare.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

A pilot whose last act was to swerve a malfunctioning plane away from houses has been honoured with a memorial 81 years after her death. Flight Captain Eleanor Isabella "Susan" Slade was flying a ...

Her body was found in the wreckage. A memorial has now been unveiled at Upper Rissington, in view of the RAF Little Rissington runway where the pilot took off for the final time.

Hell reigned above the skies of Kolombangara Island, close to the island of Guadalcanal. First Lieutenant Jefferson J. DeBlanc of the US Marine Corps was engaged in a desperate fight against ...

Tragic plane crash at London Southend Airport kills all four aboard, investigation ongoing, victims believed to be foreign nationals.

Pilots shared with HuffPost the things they never do on an airplane, from boarding and takeoff to landing and deplaning. xavierarnau via Getty Images When airline pilots travel as passengers, they ...

Southend Airport plane crash: Police issue major update on victims The plane crashed on Sunday as it was taking off from Southend Airport in Essex.

The nurse from Chile - Maria Fernanda Rojas Ortiz - was onboard with two Dutch pilots and one other person, according to a document which lists passengers.

Children wave goodbye to two pilots about to take off from Southend Airport. Moments later, all four on board are dead after the plane suddenly banked left and nosedived into the ground in a fiery ...

Four foreign nationals died on board a plane that crashed after taking off from London Southend Airport, Essex Police said.