Will be posting an infographic on the Sept. 11 Mecca supercrane disaster soon; meantime, on a lighter subject, here's a note on what I...

The Martian : Fun read, and reflects an amazing amount of research and thought by the author. The family enjoyed it even more than I did. Ma...

Monitoring news of the explosions in the giant port of Tianjin , China.  We are told that a fire in containerized cargo brought dozens of ...

This follows my earlier post on Gen. Hank "Gunfighter" Emerson, who died in February. It's excerpted from my book  on the soc...

At the first of the Vietnam War, helicopters commonly provided rapid transit for troops attempting to employ a “cordon and sweep” maneuver ...

A  new interim investigative report from the Malaysian authorities is worth reading, and not just for the news item about an expired batte...

Here's another helicopter story from my social history of helicopters,  The God Machine . This year is the 45th anniversary of the figh...