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

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...

During World War II, before the age of computer-generated aircraft engineering drawings, thousands of skilled draftsmen created tens of thousands of drawings for every aspect of every model of ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower engine, helping it reach speeds of 331 mph and a service ceiling of 32,810 feet. Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one ...

In the Murmansk region of Russia, aircraft wrecks from World War II are regularly discovered. Numerous photographs show machines of German, Soviet, and American origin recovered from the water.

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...

which was commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Army to design the aircraft, manufactured 1,342 of the trainers from 1941 to just before the end of World War II. The aircraft measured around 12 ...

By March of 2020, individual states had already started going into lockdown, and suddenly there were far more pressing matters to address than the fate of a few dozen teetering WWII aircraft.

During World War II, the Luftwaffe's BF 110 aircraft and ME-110 fighter planes included the iconic shark, with the Royal Air Force then incorporating it on its P-40 fighter planes in North Africa.

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...