While at 75, Jason Hong rarely flew anymore, he still owned a colourful single engine 1958 Cessna Skyhawk that he called his “old treasure”. Making a rare visit to the plane at Corona Municipal Airpor

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This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai