The Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" was Japan’s most ambitious World War II bomber—and its crews' deadliest trap. Known to American pilots as the "Flying Lighter" for its terrifying tendency to burst into ...

Authorities unearthed an unexploded Second World War bomb in Klettenberg Park in Cologne and had to dispose of it immediately. Roughly 8,400 people were told to evacuate an area within a 500-meter ...

Bomb disposal operations, like this major one in the central Deutz district in June 2025, are commonplace in CologneBjörn Kietzmann/DW Authorities from the western German city of Cologne moved to ...

Lately, Boeing has dominated headlines and not for good reasons. After a series of incidents involving the 737 MAX and Dreamliner, public perception of Boeing's safety record has declined. However, if ...

Military aircraft come in all shapes and sizes, but these days nearly all of them have one thing in common: they are painted grey. Boring, monotonous grey. But military aviation has a colorful history ...

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