The high desert between California and Nevada has quietly built a reputation as America’s own aviation dead zone, a place where routine flights vanish and wreckage is never recovered. Over the past ...
On Dec. 5, 1945 — 80 years ago Friday — five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on what was to be a three-hour training mission. The planes and ...