The Defense Department, which has been speeding up on the letting of contracts, last week opened the throttle wider. Among the awards: ¶The Navy signed a $100 million contract to procure the F8U-3, an ...

Click to open image viewer. The F8U Crusader was the first carrier-based jet fighter to exceed 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) per hour. Its variable-incidence wing, which could elevate up to seven ...

Capt. Marland W. “Doc” Townsend entered the U.S. Navy flight training program in June 1945 and was designated a naval aviator in September 1948. His first operation experience was gained as an ...

Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell is perhaps best known for uttering some of the most infamous words in the history of space travel: “Houston, we have a problem.” In addition to Apollo 13, ...

Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy games are known for their uncompromising scope and depth in recreating entire eras of history, but never before have they attempted something quite so dizzyingly ...

When Vought produced this retrospective film about their F8U-1 and F8U-2 Crusader fighters, the days of the Last Gunfighter serving in frontline fleet squadrons were numbered. Their other fighter ...

Robert (“Fighting Bob”) McNamara was back in the ring, eagerly taking on anyone and everyone who has the slightest doubt about the way he handled the controversial TFX fighter-aircraft contract award.

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...

For the second straight Olympics, 3-on-3 basketball will be a featured sport in addition to the traditional 5-on-5 offering. The event, which is called 3x3, has seen an astronomical rise since it was ...

In the 1960s, the development of high-performance reconnaissance cameras offered greater resolution, but at a price. Many of these systems were large and heavy, and the current high-altitude spyplane ...

When Tesla first hit the mass-market scene with the Model S, it rightfully shocked the world. There was nothing else like it. At the time, no other electric car on the planet was as good, none had ...