Pilot

Douglas Bader was born in 1910 just as humanity was learning to take flight. The newly discovered frontier beckoned to the brilliant and rambunctious Englishman, so as soon as he …

On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin climbed aboard a rocket and left Earth’s atmosphere, becoming the first human to ever fly through space. Upon landing, he infuriated Christians …

With his request finally approved, a CNN News cameraman quickly used his smartphone to call the local airstrip to charter a flight. He was told a twin-engine plane would be …