In the summer of 1941, British pilots began reporting encounters with an unfamiliar German fighter that seemed faster, ...

The Fw 190 hit the skies over France in 1941 and triggered what RAF pilots later called the “Fw 190 Scourge.” It was faster than the Spitfire V, rolled harder, and dictated the fight on its own terms.

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

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The real-world analog for the "Star Wars" Y-wing starfighter is less obvious than for other spacecraft in the series. B-29 Superfortress cockpits clearly inspired the Millennium Falcon, and X-wings ...

Uncle Elwood was born on March 25, 1920, near Laceyville, Pennsylvania, and sprouted up on the family farm with his two brothers and the cows and the crops. He ended up smallish, but fearless, and ...

The chief test pilot commented that the Bf 210 had “all the least desirable attributes an aeroplane could possess.” It took ...

BERLIN (AP) — Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military ...

John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot from the storied 100th Bombardment Group, a war-battered unit of B-17 heavy bombers that flew missions deep over German-held territory during World War II, ...

Yesterday I was watching an interesting video about World War II planes that participated in an air show in the United States. The flight took place at the Michigan Airshow at Willow Run Airport near ...