The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying ...

With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their ...

Yo whats going on everybody, it’s Biggie cheese. When I’m not telling the world about how people call me Mr. Boombastic while calling me fantastic, I keep my mind thinking about straight tragedies ...

Discover the surprising reasons behind Britain’s choice of the .303 Browning machine gun for its fighters and bombers in ...

September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at ...

The Supermarine Scimitar was the last Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft designed with an obsolete requirement to be able to ...

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

History and Heritage - Air Force (HH-AF) officially released the documentary An Enduring Legacy: The Empire Air Training ...

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.

But beneath the quiet green lies a tale of war and a bomber that never went home – a story the mountain has held for almost ...

Malcolm Rubin grew up in Elmira and, after studying at Cornell University, joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Rubin was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down in November 1944 over ...

Fred Whipple has long been recognized as a major contributor to our understanding of space and spaceflight—with contributions ...