Major Charles Carpenter, also known as “Bazooka Charlie” ,and the “Mad Major,” was an American pilot of World War Two. He was ...

Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave ...

History was made over the weekend in San Francisco Bay. 80-year-old Philippine Mars water bomber plane touched down near Alameda in an 800-mile journey from British Columbia, before ending its voyage ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

The 117-foot long Philippine Mars flew is one of two of its kind still in existence, anchored in Alameda overnight.

Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War II bombing by Germany are set to ... They were dug by hand starting in late 1940, when German planes were bombing the city almost every day ...

War, what is it good for? This is a question with very few reasonable answers. However, war is undeniably a driver of technological advancement: The rapid evolution of combat planes during WWII is ...

Hundreds of that kind of plane occupied Chico’s runway during 1942 as the Chico Army Airfield trained pilots for World War II. To Mueller’s knowledge, PT-26s did not call Chico home during the ...

The Philippine Mars' final flight ended in Lake Pleasant, Arizona, where the aircraft will be displayed. See photos of the ...