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

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 ...

But Convair believed they had the seed of a successful airframe in the delta-wing design ... throughout much of the Cold War—an era when interceptor aircraft were deemed especially important ...

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.