World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

The island of Tinian was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

President Donald Trump's executive order dismantles DEI programs on a federal level, but efforts continue from Montgomery to ...

A host of aircraft to admire in flight: that's what awaits you this weekend in Melun for the new edition of the "Air Legend" ...

Military fighter jets come with a lot of history and the moniker of the F-35 Lightning II is no exception. Here's a dive into ...

Japan Air Self-Defense Force jets were scrambled 345 times in response ... from Japan by the Soviet Union at the conclusion of World War II. This has hindered the two nations from reaching a ...

The world's only Douglas DC-1 first flew on July 1, 1933, by Carl Cover. After half a year of testing and performing over 200 ...

In Nevada, the deadliest plane crash was in 1964. A four-engine Constellation operated by California’s Paradise Airlines traveling from Oakland crashed in a mountain near Lake Tahoe after two failed ...

Just 11 years after the Wright Brothers took flight in a powered aircraft for the first time, primitive aircraft were being ...

“ By the afternoon, only one Japanese carrier remained: Hiryū. It’s believed Best’s bomb was one of four to strike the vessel, making him the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese aircraft ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...