Once symbols of progress and power, airports now stand frozen in time — empty control towers, silent terminals, and cracked runways that stretch into the past. From Cold War relics to futuristic ...

During WWII, the U.S. had 93 airfields across the Pacific. Today, just 33 remain — and that’s not enough. New satellite images show jungle being cleared on Tinian, where planes that bombed Hiroshima ...

Our Aug. 10 column, “What happened to Haile Field, a lost Austin airport north of Hyde Park?” generated considerable reader interest. Taken from American-Statesman articles from the 1930s through the ...

Newer airports, wars, bad design, and financial miscalculations are some of the reasons we have so many abandoned airports around the world. They sit empty, their runways cracked, and terminals ...

For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly abandoned to the jungle. Now, amid a push to strengthen America's military ...