Barrage balloons were used by many countries in WW2, including Britain and the U.S., and played a vital role in the Normandy landings on D-Day.

Another barrage balloon made national news in May 1943 by floating about 1,000 miles over three days to Colorado, running out of gas in Calamity Creek Canyon, near Grand Junction.

On May 13, a United Airlines plane made a wrong turn during takeoff, nearly colliding with a SkyWest flight at San Francisco International Airport.

On May 13, a United Airlines plane made a wrong turn during takeoff, nearly colliding with a SkyWest flight at San Francisco International Airport.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The remains of all 67 victims of last week’s midair collision of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., have been recovered, authorities ...

By 1940, the Royal Air Force Balloon Command had 1,400 of these barrage balloons in its fleet, with a third flying directly above London. Meanwhile, France used them to ward off aerial attacks on ...