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

While the RAF, USAAF, Red Air Force, Japanese Air Forces, and Luftwaffe dominate memory, there were other notable air forces ...

Richard Bong - the deadliest American WWII pilot - amassed 40 air-to-air ... at level flight and doubled the range of ...

An American aircraft carrier has arrived near the Korean Peninsula for an exercise with Japan and South Korea.

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

The American Bell P-59 Airacomet ... jet fighter as well as the only jet fighter to see air-to-air combat against manned adversaries’ aircraft in WWII, making her maiden flight on July 18 ...

Kiggins was killed during a combat mission over Brno, becoming the only American soldier to die in the Moravian capital ...

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 ...