PINE BLUFF — Stacked in boxes and separated by old newspapers, plastic replicas of the fighter jets and bomber planes of World War II sit in the corner of Currin Nichol’s old home on Martin Street.

John Fraser Hart grinned as he examined a World War II model aircraft for the first time in 20, maybe 30 years. âÄúI loved to watch [the real ones],âÄù he said. The University of Minnesota geography ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville World War II veteran marked a special milestone on Wednesday when he turned 100 years old. "I feel like I'm in good health," said Albert Gill, who served as a navigator ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (July 12) -- Two local military officers, with a passion for aviation history, spend much of their free time building and flying radio controlled planes modeled after some of the ...

A collection of model planes now call the Lafayette VA Clinic home. The family of George T. Mayer, a Navy Veteran and native of New Orleans, donated his World War II model plane collection on Monday.

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...

History buffs know the image well: a score of U.S. fighter planes sporting the now-iconic black and white stripes across their wings soaring over Normandy as the Allies mounted one of the most ...