Many experts consider it the best World War II fighter plane. -Conceived in just five years, the Mustang’s prototype, the NA-73X, was designed, built, and flown within 180 days. Initially ...

World War II saw a great deal of innovation in the area of fighter aircraft design and construction ... the P-35 wasn't the best fighter produced by the U.S. in the lead-up to WWII.

Andy Alfaro Sacramento Bee file If you cruised on Interstate 80 near Madison Avenue in Sacramento back in the early 2000s, you might remember seeing a World War II fighter plane perched by the ...

The United States and China are racing to field their next-generation, or the so-called "sixth-generation," fighter aircraft, which are designed to be superior to the most advanced combat jets that ...

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

The aircraft honors retired Maj. Gen. Donald Strait, a World War II fighter ace, Silver Star recipient, and the first New Jersey Air National Guard officer to be promoted to two-star general ...

The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de Havilland Vampire was adapted for naval use, becoming the aptly named Sea Vampire.

His courage in battle brought him the Congressional Gold Medal, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Legion of Merit.

CHIKUZEN, Fukuoka Prefecture--A full-size replica of the rarest of Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the Shinden interceptor, has gone on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum here.