Emilio Carranza was heading home to Mexico to complete a goodwill tour when his plane crashed in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

While Corrigan maintained that he became disoriented in the clouds and that his compass was defective, authorities did not believe his claim that his arrival in Ireland was an accident. So, one ...

The Aviator and the Showman,' Laurie Gwen Shapiro's vibrant account of Amelia Earhart's union with a publicity-seeking ...

Romance came in the curvaceous form of Mae West, with some crediting Madden for bankrolling her early Hollywood career. By the end of the Roaring Twenties, the lad from Somerset Street was a ...

The company, owned by General Motors, discovered that a terribly toxic and volatile chemical called tetraethyl lead changed the way gasoline burned in the extreme temperatures and pressures created by ...

Born in 1897 in Atchison, Kan. — a small town with limited opportunities, especially for women — Amelia Earhart decided ...

A state judge on Monday granted embattled developer Charles Cohen more time to sell buildings from his Midtown office ...

The Ladies Auxiliary of Hilton Fire Department was organized on April 21, 1925, and according to the original mission ...

The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

She was one of the most relevant supermodels of all time, but went on to live a quiet life before passing away ...

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...

It was May 20, 1927 that Charles Lindbergh mounted his attempt to fly from Long Island in New York to France. He landed in Paris more than 30 hours later, becoming the first pilot to make a solo ...