Pre-war air doctrine claimed massed, gun-bristling bombers could penetrate enemy airspace without escorts. Reality hit hard ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid to aerodynamics. The aircraft was powered by two Rolls-Royce Peregrine ...

By far the best American fighter of 1939, and by far the shiniest aircraft on this list, the Curtiss Hawk 75A scored the ...

Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...

During WWII, engineers produced some of the most iconic aircraft in history. From sleek fighters to hulking steel beasts -- ...

During World War II, the sky was its own battlefield, and the fighter pilots who owned it were a different breed. They were ...

Minnesota artist Noel L. Dunn painted a collection of 100 works featuring combat warbirds, each autographed by those who flew ...

It was the Flying Pancake - a strange, yet promising experimental test aircraft built for the American Navy fighter program ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

The sounds and sights of WWII will mark Veterans Day and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII at the Commemorative Air ...

A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said.