During the Cold War, West Germany secretly built a stealth jet to rival the F-117. With its faceted, “Dorito-like” design, ...

The MiG-29 Fulcrum, a Cold War-era fighter, was once a formidable rival to the F-16 in terms of dogfighting capabilities ...

Astonishingly, the A-3 was not equipped with ejection seats, leading Navy service members to joke morbidly that the A-3D variant stood for “All Three Dead.” ...

The F-89’s horizontal stabilizer was positioned in a distinctive forward-leaning configuration—which gave the aircraft’s tail ...

The first jet bomber to go into production after the war was the North American B-45 Tornado. With its straight wings and conventional construction it was not ...

“Faster than a speeding bullet” may bring to mind a certain superhero from the planet Krypton, but it was literally true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the sleek, stealthy Air Force spy plane taken ...

How the invention of the jet engine transformed Britain after the Second World War and came to capture the imagination of a generation and define how the Cold War was fought.