2017-02-08 20:54 The way to shoot down a balloon was with incendiary bullets, if the gas would ignite, which wasn't certain.

2017-02-01 20:49 The Allies felt that parachutes could cause a pilot to abandon a plane while it could still be saved, and planes were in shorter supply than pilots.

2017-01-27 20:42 Libby was trained for 30 minutes on how to use a machine gun, then he was shown how to use the gun in the airplane, then sent up in the airplane to try it. The instructor forgot to tell him how to cha...

2017-01-11 15:59 Suddenly the door opened to admit a vision of military splendor such as one does not see twice in a lifetime. It was Eugene Bullard.

2017-01-04 15:55 A Los Angeles reporter made up a story about how he was actually Baron Edward von Rickenbacher trying to prove himself in America to his strict Prussian father. (Fake news isn't new either....)

2017-01-02 15:38 James Norman Hall bicycled from London to Scotland to meet his favorite author but was afraid to knock on the door when he got there.