Hundreds of the German aircraft were seized by the United States ... Though 20 mph slower than the French SPAD S.XIII flown by American ace Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the D.VII was operational ...

and much more to work with compared to the pilots of WWI. "These guys literally had the bare bones when it came to instruments," he said. Original aircraft had minimal tools to indicate altitude ...

Coughlin, a dedicated volunteer and board member of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in Red Hook, N.Y., was piloting a ...

A photograph is of the FE2d aircraft named Falkland, a two-seat Pusher aircraft operated as a fighter by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War A discovery by the Museum and National ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

As the U.S. military recruited young men for service, civilians were called upon to do their part by buying War bonds, donating to charity, or, if they worked in industry, going that extra mile for ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

It has been over 100 years since the start of World War One (WWI). This series of eight primary lesson plans support a CBBC 'Operation Ouch! WWI Special' film, which looks at the impact of WWI. gain ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

"We ask all to respect Brian's memory by not speculating about his death," said the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum A pilot flying a World War I replica plane in upstate New York died on Saturday ...

Brian T. Coughlin, a longtime volunteer and board member of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in Red Hook, N.Y, was flying a replica of a WWI Fokker D-VIII during an airshow when it "went down ...