The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying ...
Not even a government shutdown can ground the Army Air Corps ahead of the Air Force versus Army football game on Saturday. No, that’s not a typo. Even though the planned flyover by the Air Force and ...
In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...
The P-80 did serve in the Second World War, albeit briefly. Two pre-production USAAF YP-80A Shooting Stars saw service in ...
From the Defiant to the Lancaster, Gladiator to the Hawker Tempest, this video explores the 11 most lethal aircraft the British operated in WWII. Discover surprising entries, the pilots behind their ...
U.K. archaeologists with Cotswold Archaeology have found over 5,000 artifacts from the fatal crash that killed WWII ...
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Deadliest Pilots of World War II

Just 11 years after the Wright Brothers took flight in a powered aircraft for the first time, primitive aircraft were being taken to the frontlines as Europe exploded into the Great War in August 1914 ...
Neel Kearby became a hardcore “believer” in the P-47 and devoted himself to developing a doctrine for making the most of the ...
Mary Hawkins spent 13 months flying the wounded out of the Pacific Theater, becoming one of the few women to be awarded the ...
The Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame has been recognizing the state’s aviation heroes since the centennial of aviation in ...
It went over well, and they were asked back. More like-minded folks joined them, and soon the Warbird Living History Group ...