In 1951, ace pilot George Duncan was testing the Navy’s new F9F Panther off the Virginia coast when a routine carrier landing turned into one of the most shocking crash moments ever filmed at sea.

The first air-to-air combat between fighter jets took place on Nov. 8, 1950 when, during an attack on the Sinuiju bridges near the mouth of the Yalu River, a U.S. Air Force F-80C belonging to the 16th ...

In 1951, ace pilot George Duncan was flying routine carrier tests aboard USS Midway when a sudden downdraft turned a normal F9F Panther landing into disaster. The jet dropped below the deck edge, ...

Soon after the Second World War ended, America was quick to jump on the fighter jet train. True, work on machines that could take to the sky by means others than propellers began even as the world’s ...

Royce Williams was flying an inferior F9F Panther. Military aviation experts say Williams' success that day was a result of his training and readiness. More than 70 years ago, a US Navy pilot took on ...

Instead, Amen made aviation history by scoring the first air-to-air victory in an all jets dogfight when he downed Grachev’s MiG-15. The Korean war, that raged for three years from Jun. 25, 1950 to ...

US Air Force F-80C Shooting Stars during the Korean War in 1950 or 1951.US Air Force/B. Butcher By late 1950, US pilots were frequently battling North Korean and Soviet pilots over Korea. That ...

The USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, has fused patriotism and breast-cancer awareness by unveiling a hot pink F9F-8 Cougar for display. “The Blue Ghost,” a World War II-vintage Essex ...