Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

At first glance, the photograph of two fighter jets — one parked on the tarmac and other zooming past it in the air — appears ...

The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War ... nation during the war. It claimed the title of the most extensively used American fighter aircraft, with nearly ...

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

Touted as Moscow’s most advanced fighter jet, Russian officials are making a sales pitch of Sukhoi-57 fighter jet to its ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., credited with taking down three Nazi planes in one fight while flying with the Tuskegee ...

While the B-17 helped win World War II and could defend itself with its 13 machine gun placements, they weren't nearly as agile as smaller fighter planes and were vulnerable without escort planes.