The 20th century history being filled with disasters, it is not surprising that we seem to be buffeted by one melancholy anniversary after another. But there are disasters and disasters, many of them ...

The project aims to makes readers experience the 1929 adventure through the testimony of one of its passengers and images of ...

“Oh, the humanity!” was the cry from radio announcer Herbert Morrison on May 6, 1937, as the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin burst into flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Morrison's breathless description ...

In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel "Debt of Honor," a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic ...

LADY LAKE — Mother and daughter Gerda and Diane Cely have what they think is a little bit of history tucked away — a propeller from the ill-fated Hindenburg zeppelin. The Hindenburg exploded in flames ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...

This May 6, 1937, file photo, provided by the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was taken when the Hindenburg exploded over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. By Bob D'Angelo, Cox ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...