According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

Sleek, agile, powerful and possessing a multitude of guns on the nose and wings – the fighters of World War II have etched ...

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 ...

War, what is it good for? This is a question with very few reasonable answers. However, war is undeniably a driver of technological advancement: The rapid evolution of combat planes during WWII is ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...