The last flying PB4Y-2 Privateer -- the Navy's version of the U.S. Army Air Corp's World War II-era B-24 Liberator heavy bomber -- is in the Coachella Valley for a week-long layover at the Palm ...

1940s PB4Y-1 and BQ-7 (USA) The ongoing threat of the German V-1 during World War II prompted the U.S. Navy to develop UAVs that could destroy V-1 launch sites. In 1944, the Navy's Special Air Unit ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A plane that saw service during the Korean War era will land at Yellowstone International Airport ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a PB4Y-1 is shown circa 1944. (U.S. Navy) Of the many aircraft in which ...

The first hurricane/typhoon hunter plane loss occurred on October 1, 1945, when a Navy PB4Y-2 (BuNo 59415) went down in a Category 1 typhoon over the South China Sea. Pilot Lt(jg) Ralph Cook and Crew ...

Dr. Masters is on vacation this week, so we're posting some blogs he wrote before hitting the road. People have been flying into hurricanes and typhoons ever since 1943, when Colonel Joe Duckworth ...

In the years of Cold War, the usual crossroads of the International spying was the Baltic Sea, a narrow part of sea overlooking the Soviet Union, DDR and Poland for Warsaw’s Pact side, West Germany, ...

The planes, known respectively as the PB4Y-1 AND BQ-7, took off with a two-man crew, who would fly the plane to 2,000 feet and set a course for V-1 launch sites in France before bailing out. Though ...

Of the many aircraft in which airmen fought their way to receive the Medal of Honor, alive or posthumously, only one flew the Consolidated PB4Y-1, a U.S. Navy variant of the B-24 Liberator. In ...

Of the many aircraft in which airmen fought their way to receive the Medal of Honor, alive or posthumously, only one flew the Consolidated PB4Y-1, a U.S. Navy variant of the B-24 Liberator. In ...