World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...
A United States Air Force pilot has been hospitalized after ejecting from an F-35 fighter jet that crashed at the Eielson Air ...
The P-47 Thunderbolt, symbol of the 8th Air Force's resilience, faced relentless Luftwaffe attacks in 1943. Explore its ...
As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...
After the original designer RJ Mitchell died in 1937, his successor Joe Smith developed the fighter to make it faster and more powerful. In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to ...
When most military analysts discuss the strength of respective air forces within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ...
The “Flying Pencil” was first “blooded” in combat in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War as part of the Luftwaffe’s Condor ...
Had the Russian version of the P-51 appeared five years earlier, 'I doubt if anyone would ever have heard of the Mustang.' ...
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...
As noted by the BattleOfBritain1940 website: “Even with greater defensive firepower, the Do 17 proved vulnerable to RAF fighters and ... in service with the Luftwaffe for the remainder of ...