Growing up in tiny Frederic, Wisconsin, the Karl brothers were always tinkering. Always building something — “or taking things apart, probably more often than building things,” says oldest brother ...

Bob McCaffery talks about how he led the effort to restore the famed Spruce Goose, a gigantic wooden airplane, built and flown by actor-aviator-Howard Hughes.

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to ...

The DH 98 Mosquito (aka "Mossie") was one of the most adaptable aircraft used during World War II, with at least forty-two uniquely different versions built and operated by the British and her Allies.