It’s 1955, and somewhere above American-controlled waters, a lone Grumman S-2 Tracker cuts across the sky. Inside the cramped fuselage, a crew of four hunches over glowing dials and paper readout ...

In the experimental madness of the 1930s, Italy built an aircraft that looked more like a flying barrel than a real airplane. The Stipa-Caproni was bizarre, slow, and almost cartoonish, yet hidden ...