Tom Cruise’s Unexpected Response on Estrangement from Daughter Suri Sparks Conversation

Tom Cruise’s Unexpected Response on Estrangement from Daughter Suri Sparks Conversation At the recent premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in New York City, Tom Cruise faced a question about Father’s Day that led to an unexpectedly vague and awkward response, reigniting public interest in his relationship with his eldest daughter, Suri Cruise. The […]

Why Tom Cruise Left Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption

Why Tom Cruise Left Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption For younger audiences who mostly associate Tom Cruise with the Mission: Impossible franchise and blockbuster action hits, it might come as a surprise that once upon a time, Cruise was also a sought-after dramatic actor working with Hollywood’s most acclaimed directors. Back in the ’90s, Cruise was not […]

Tom Cruise Reveals Shocking Number of Movies He’s Working on Right Now

Tom Cruise Reveals Shocking Number of Movies He’s Working on Right Now Tom Cruise isn’t just passionate about acting — he’s on a mission to keep making movies for as long as humanly possible. The iconic actor recently shocked fans and industry insiders alike by revealing just how many films he currently has in the […]

The story of the Messerschmitt Me 262 three-seater night fighter that never was

The world’s first operational turbojet aircraft Developed from a 1938 design by the Messerschmitt company, the Me 262 Schwalbe was the world’s first operational turbojet aircraft. First flown under jet power on Jul. 18, 1942, it proved much faster than conventional airplanes. On Jul. 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when […]

The DH103 Hornet was designed based on the successful wooden construction principles of the De Havilland DH98 Mosquito. It featured a pair of 2,070 hp Merlin engines with counter-rotating propellers. During trials at Boscombe Down, the Hornet achieved an impressive maximum speed of 485 mph at 22,000 feet. The aircraft was also praised for its ‘superb handling characteristics,’ notably its high rate of roll.

Superb Handling at 485 mph: The De Havilland Hornet – The Fastest Wooden Marvel of Its Time When we picture high-performance fighters of World War II and the years immediately after, we often imagine sleek all-metal airframes—bristling with guns, gleaming with innovation, and roaring with the promise of jet propulsion on the horizon. But De […]

What To Know About The Caproni Campini N.1: Italy’s Forgotten Fighter Jet

Italy produced a number of excellent military aircraft in WWII, but these are frequently overshadowed by other countries – partly because Italy lacked the industrial base to produce them at scale. Italy even produced an early jet fighter before it became the first Axis belligerent to surrender to the Allies in 1943. In fact, Italy was briefly thought to […]

Grumman Test Pilot Shoots Himself Down

Grumman Test Pilot Shoots Himself Down September 21st, 1956, Grumman company test pilot Tom Attridge showed up for another day of work as a test pilot for Grumman Iron Works.  His mission for the day was to take up a Grumman F11F Tiger, bring it up to the speed of sound (Mach 1.0) at twenty […]

USS Missouri (BB-63) Gunner’s Mate Second Class Charles J. Hansen working on a 40mm quad machine gun mount, during the battleship’s shakedown period, circa August 1944. Note his tattoos, commemorating service on USS Vincennes (CA-44) and shipmates lost with her in the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.

Title: “Ink and Iron: Remembering Savo Island Through a Gunner’s Hands on USS Missouri” August 1944. The war in the Pacific is reaching a fever pitch, and the U.S. Navy’s newest and mightiest dreadnought, USS Missouri (BB-63), is alive with energy as she embarks on her shakedown cruise. Above her shimmering decks—still unscarred by the […]

. [Untitled, Vietnam] : photo by Clare Love (clare_love42), c.1968; posted 13 September 2008 Of mechanized arms .

Title: “[Untitled, Vietnam]: Mechanized Arms and the Human Spirit in Clare Love’s Forgotten Photograph” It’s 1968, and the dense, humid air of Vietnam hangs thick with the scent of earth and oil. Half a world away, the West is convulsing—by protest, by hope, by violence—but here, in a jungle clearing somewhere between Saigon and Hue, […]