Propeller aircraft

The US Marine Corps C-130 Hercules named "Fat Albert," assigned to the US Navy “Blue Angels” flight demonstration team, uses Jet Assisted Take Off bottles during the 2005 Blue Angel Homecoming show.

A Marine pilot breaks the gender barrier in one of the world’s most elite squadrons

Conflict

When the elite aerial team called the Blue Angels formed in 1946, all of its pilots were men. In 2014, the same thing was true. Now history has been made with the addition of Capt. Katie Higgins, the first female pilot to serve with the Navy’s world-famous demonstration squadron.

The World

Here’s what you can do with a whimsical idea and a whole lot of leg power

Technology
A Chinese J-11 fighter jet is seen flying near a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon about 215 km (135 miles) east of China's Hainan Island in this U.S. Department of Defense handout photo taken August 19, 2014.

US and Chinese warplanes risk a mid-air collision — and an international incident

Conflict

Divers discover 50,000-year-old cypress trees on Gulf of Mexico floor

Environment

London’s water service looking to turn sewer’s ‘fatbergs’ into power

Environment

When the United Nations was new, cities fought for right to host it

Global Politics

The United Nations was going to be located in the United States — that much was sure. But just where the new headquarters, the new capital of the world, would be located, was much debated back in the 1940s. A new book looks at that battle.

U.S. Department of Defense end ban on women in combat roles

Global Politics

More than 20,000 women have served in Iraq of Afghanistan, but they haven’t received the same recognition or opportunities for advancement as their male counterparts. But now that the ban has been lifted, hundreds of thousands of front-line jobs will now be open to women.

Civilian companies eye big potential for domestic drone use

Environment

Unmanned aerial vehicles have become popular tools in America’s wars, but that technology is working its way back stateside. Already, there are a few domestic uses of drones, mostly by law enforcement and the military. But manufacturers have much bigger ideas in mind.

Historian mashes up historical images with modern-day reality

Arts, Culture & Media

An historian from the Netherlands has garnered a great deal of attention for her stunning combination of historic photographs with the same location in modern day. Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse says she’s always been fascinated by history — and this is an outlet for that.

New PBS movie based on journal kept by World War II POW

Arts, Culture & Media

Paul Loong spent years in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. He kept a journal through it all and his daughter, who found it, recently turned it into a film, “Every Day is a Holiday,” set to air on PBS.