Preflight. That Doolittle kid -- Bad boys--good girls -- A love affair with flight -- The pilots lounge -- Instrument takeoff. Coast to coast -- Back to school -- Stunts and speed -- Flying blind -- ...

Hollywood made a movie about it, numerous books have been written about it and now Doolittle’s Raid on Tokyo — the first retaliatory strike against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor — is the topic of ...

World War II pilot Dick Cole, the last surviving member of the Doolittle Raid, died last week at age 103. Cole was renowned aviation pioneer Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot in April 1942 on what was ...

This week we fly back 80 years to Jan. 13, 1946, when World War II icon and aviation pioneer Gen. James “Jimmy” Doolittle came to town to dedicate Moisant International Airport, now known as Louis ...

Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Allied commander in French North Africa, was interrupted by a message at a press conference. General Eisenhower glanced at the message, then exclaimed: ...

The Massey Aerodrome and Air Museum held a “Fly-Out” late last month to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jimmy Doolittle’s victory in the Schneider Trophy Race, first held on Oct. 26, 1925.

"Written by gifted storyteller Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump), The Aviators tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators--Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle--and how ...

CORNWALL – The Cornwall Public Library at 395 Hudson Street in Cornwall, will host a lecture, “Top-Secret Revenge: The Doolittle Raid,” at 1 p.m. on March 12. Aviation historian Matt Soltis will ...

Aviation artist and longtime Doolittle friend, Hal Tacker of Colusa, said he isn't at all surprised that Doolittle didn't talk about the Willows practices, because the man he knew often enjoyed ...

The five B-25B Mitchell bombers flew slowly over Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, soon followed by a pair of C-47 Dakota cargo planes, then a four-ship F-15E missing-man formation. The crowd in the ...

Sentimental General Tough, stocky, sentimental James Harold Doolittle, Sc.D., man of culture and scrappy legend of U.S. aviation, received a present from the White House last week. The present: the ...

A barnstormer, a prize-winning air racer, a key strategist and flier in major WWII bombing campaigns, an eventual air force general and a pioneer of engineering test piloting (blind flying and the ...