Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

Built with flaws that nearly doomed it, the P-38 Lightning found its true purpose in the Pacific, excelling in long-range combat, relentless interception, and one of the war’s most daring missions.

Stafford stumbled and the Panthers stole one behind a monster Bryce Young performance. Sam Darnold was lucky he was facing ...

On January 27, 1939, the first flight of a long-range fighter jet took place, which was revolutionary in its design. The fighter that killed the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor in a ...

Explore the combat capabilities and legendary missions of the P-38 Lightning and Mosquito. From speed, armament, and range to pilot comfort and survivability, this guide highlights how these aircraft ...

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...

The waves of the sea, the sand and the passage of time are capable of burying the most unexpected objects, even a fighter plane. On July 31, 2007, a resident of the county of Gwynedd, in Wales, found ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German ...

Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...