In August 1944, during a daring mission deep in German-controlled territory, American pilot Dick Wilsey pushes his P-38 ...

A 1940 British order helped cement the name Lightning, but worries over turbos, engine layout, and deadly dive issues killed the deal and pushed those airframes into US hands after 7, 1941. From ...

On January 27, 1939, the first flight of a long-range fighter jet took place, which was revolutionary in its design. The fighter that killed the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor in a ...

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...

Aaron has a burning passion for flying and traveling around the world. He has flown around the world numerous times while making a point of visiting aviation museums around the world. He hails from ...

The waves of the sea, the sand and the passage of time are capable of burying the most unexpected objects, even a fighter plane. On July 31, 2007, a resident of the county of Gwynedd, in Wales, found ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German ...

Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

The KC-135 heritage jet will remain in service with its WWII-inspired paint scheme until 2025. The Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) unveiled a historic KC-135R Stratotanker ...

The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in northern ...