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

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 ..

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

Joel Abramson, a 101-year-old World War II fighter pilot now living at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, signs his name Saturday on a 1941 Boeing Stearman plane owned by Garrett Fleishman of Oxford at ...

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 ...

“I had just flown the very last combat mission of World War II,” said Abramson. At the age of 18 Abramson was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Iwo Jima. He flew a P47 fighter plane named ...