When Clem Sohn met his end at a Paris air show in 1937, flailing desperately as he plunged to earth with a pair of defective parachutes, his death was considered tragic but hardly shocking. The winged ...

Year ago U. S. newspicture editors were astonished to receive from Germany what purported to be the photograph of a man flying under his own power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated ...

Two miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph (“Clem”) Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade “bat wings” of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego, Batman, debuted in March 1939, going on to become one of the all-time beloved comic superheroes. But before the Dark Knight took the moniker ...

“The Batman and the Ballerina” by Fowler author Dean Feldpausch (Mission Point Press, $18 pb, $24 hb) offers a mesmerizing, highly entertaining historical novel. Subtitled “The Amazing Life and Love ...