Here’s What You Need to Know: This ungainly French plane was not meant to be. In the heady opening years of the Cold War, war planners assumed that the next European war’s opening salvos would have a ...

It only took forty years after the invention of flight for the world to get fed up with airports. The French magazine Docaéro complained that runways “constitute the nightmare of modern aeronautics.

In the heady opening years of the Cold War, war planners assumed that the next European war’s opening salvos would have a nuclear start. The thinking was that high priority and immobile targets like ...