World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.
The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...
Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...
The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower ... of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...
The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...
According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...
Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.
When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...
Stewart celebrates his “hat trick” after downing three Nazi aircraft. (Courtesy of Lt ... Stewart was one of two surviving ...
He was one of two of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed combat pilots of World War II.