It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

A new heritage trail is celebrating the workers who worked on thousands of planes.

The B-29 Superfortress is often remembered for its role at the end of World War II, but its true legacy lies in how far it ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World War II or patrolling the airspace in today’s contested zones, these machines ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

The Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 was France’s most common fighter at the outbreak of WWII. It wasn’t a terrible aircraft — but it ...

Many of the most legendary battles of World War II were directly shaped by the actions of pilots, with several crucial battles fought almost entirely in the skies. For example, at least nine different ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...