Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Strait commanded in his battles against the German Luftwaffe during World ... to earn the title of “flying ace” during the war – an honor given to pilots who shoot down at least five enemy ...

There’s a rare silent video featuring two supremely confident pilots smoking cigarettes and smiling for the camera at an airfield in Toul, France. The smaller man has a great smile.

Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history ... American while serving with the Luftwaffe. After his capture, the ...

They had been enemies once, a long time ago. But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired men in the ...

Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland famously replied ... shooting down 203 enemy aircraft for the loss of 29 pilots killed. No. 303 Squadron became the most successful Fighter Command unit in the ...

On Aug. 15, 1940, Royal Air Force pilot Gordon Cleaver ... A wave of Luftwaffe bombers was thundering across the English Channel. Cleaver was already an ace, credited with downing seven German ...