We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. A wooden box in Harold Young’s workshop holds the genesis of his collection ...

Francis Nicholson is America’s first documented planemaker. It’s believed he was the first planemaker to imprint his name on ...

From the bowels of a big steel cylinder the men pulled a delicately curved, glass-smooth part of an airplane wing. Bushy-browed, six-foot-six John Carlton Ward Jr. stood by with a father’s mixture of ...

The de Havilland Mosquito was the “Wooden Wonder”—outrageously fast, and formidable. But it wasn’t the only aircraft fashioned from timber. In an age when aluminium promised the future, war forced ...