Long Island aviation history: Republic Airport housed plane that 'set the stage' for high-altitude spy reconnaissance

The experimental XF-12 Rainbow could take continuous photographs from 8 miles up as it sped cross-country in the 1940s.
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The Aviator: Looking Back At The Madness And Brilliance Of Howard Hughes

Time Inc., illustration by Ernest Hamlin Baker. Time failed to renew the copyrights of many early issues; see wikisource:Time ...
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Coroner’s office identifies victims killed in Central crash on Thanksgiving

Three people were killed and one injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Baton Rouge Thursday evening, when a car traveling south ...

Telescope captures stunning new picture of cosmic butterfly

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly ...

Boeing’s troubled capsule won’t carry astronauts on next space station flight

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company’s next Starliner flight and instead perform a trial run with cargo to prove its safety. Monday’s ...