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 ...

The Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, marked the violent end of the age of luxury airship travel, largely due to its highly flammable hydrogen (a substitute for helium denied by the U.S. over Nazi ...

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 ...