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 ...

This is another break with Japan's post-World War II pacifist principles, reports "AP". This controversial decision is intended to secure Japan a stronger role in the joint fighter aircraft project ..

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All that being said, not all classic warbirds are for sale due to rarity or ... the urgent need for increased fighter ...

The 101-year-old veteran fighter pilot flew in numerous missions more than 80 years earlier across the Pacific Ocean during World War II. So the visit ... a P-47 fighter plane that he nicknamed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two ... and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

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.

The U.S. State Department has approved an $18 billion sale of fifty new Boeing F-15EX ... F-15IAs into the Israel Air Force’s fleet of fighter aircraft will enhance Israel’s interoperability ...

While other theatres did have a call on the fighter wings, by far and away the bulk of German day fighters in this period was employed in the air defence of Germany. The core of the day fighter ...

On 6 August 1945, the same day the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, an English soldier lost his life in a plane crash on the Sperrin mountains. Petty Officer Douglas David Smith was a ...