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Founded in response to air combat shortcomings during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy’s fighter training program continues to turn out elite airmen

Yakovlev’s simple approach to developing the Soviet Union’s first jet fighter worked remarkably well. […]

India’s HAL HF-24 Marut confounded detractors with its respectable combat record. The 1971 air […]

by Chester Peterson Jr.12/25/20188/19/2022

Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years
of his career

The Vickers’ “Gun Bus” pointed the way to the future of fighter aircraft, but was soon left in the wake of more advanced designs.

In 1918 the future Luftwaffe leader and Nazi war criminal was a 22-victory fighter ace and German war hero.

by Don Hollway12/11/20182/12/2019

American Louis Curdes shot down German, Italian and Japanese airplanes, then added a U.S. transport to his tally

The story of the B-17s that arrived over Hawaii during the Japanese attack has been told many times, but what happened to them?

First flown in 1952, the venerable Boeing B-52 could well be the first military aircraft to remain in service for a century

by Mark C. Wilkins11/7/201810/20/2023

America’s first indigenous scout plane was conceived by an Englishman and borrowed heavily from European designs