The Consolidated PBY Catalina, or Pigboat, was one of the most versatile and effective multi-role aircraft of World War II.

This is the story of one of the few occasions when the PBY Catalina Flying Boats was sent out on a mission as a bomber against Japanese Naval targets in the Pacific, shortly after Pearl Harbor in ...

1846: U.S. Marines and Navy sailors take possession of San Diego during the early months of the Mexican-American War. Two ...

October 3, 1950 was a day to remember in Wellington with crowds swarming around Evans Bay to glimpse a moment of aviation history. They watched as the Tasman Empire Airlines Ltd (TEAL) Solent flying ...

Royal Marines have crippled a high-speed drugs boat with a single, pinpoint sniper shot in one of the most dramatic counter-narcotics operations the Royal Navy has conducted in the Middle East. A ...

The twin-engined Beechcraft rolling down the runway at Churchill under a lowering, leaden sky carried four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of ...

How 'flying boats' are bringing EVs to the ocean — with the help of LeBron James and Tom Brady 10th time lucky! SpaceX's Starship nails successful test flight after string of explosive setbacks New EV ...

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