War drives innovation, but it can also hasten the production of equipment that isn't ready. Here are a few planes that should ...

Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

Many experts consider it the best World War II fighter plane. -Conceived in just five years, the Mustang’s prototype, the NA-73X, was designed, built, and flown within 180 days. Initially ...

That’s quite an advancement from the prop fighters of World War II that reached top speeds of 400 miles per hour. Those ...

“Whoa there, Chris,” I can already hear fans of various other WWII fighter planes admonishing me ... would go down in history as arguably the best operational piston-engined fighter ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

An American fighter plane that crashed off the north Wales coast ... and expert fighter pilots who served with distinction during WW2. My visit to the site with my wife Cathy in 2016 was very ...

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

CHIKUZEN, Fukuoka Prefecture--A full-size replica of the rarest of Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the Shinden interceptor, has gone on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum here.