6 Of The Fastest World War II Fighters, Ranked By Top Speed
World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...
P-51 Mustang Vs Yak-9: How The Iconic Fighters Compare
The Yakovlev Yak-9 and North American P-51 Mustang are two of the most infamous fighters of the Second World War.
F-35 fighter jet crashes at Alaska Air Force base during pilot training
A United States Air Force pilot has been hospitalized after ejecting from an F-35 fighter jet that crashed at the Eielson Air ...
The World's First Fighter Jet: A Look At The Messerschmitt Me 262
The Me 262 was initially designed at the request of Nazi Germany's leader, Adolph Hitler, who wanted a wonder weapon that ...
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WW2: Why do we love the Spitfire?
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 ...
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Hurricane or Spitfire? Which was Britain’s Best WWII Fighter?
As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill said about the Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning ...
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Dornier Do 17: The Luftwaffe’s Feared “Flying Pencil” of WWII
The “Flying Pencil” was first “blooded” in combat in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War as part of the Luftwaffe’s Condor ...
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Some images of Spanish F-104 Starfighter fighters of the 16th Fighter Wing in 1965
The F-104 is one of the most beautiful fighters of all those operated by Spain, which had them in service between 1965 and 1972. The history of the F-104 Starfighter that the Spanish Air Force keeps ...
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Yak-9 Represents a Rare Breed Among Warbirds
Had the Russian version of the P-51 appeared five years earlier, 'I doubt if anyone would ever have heard of the Mustang.' ...