The United States has used several different insignia on its military aircraft throughout its aviation history, and some have ...

This article explores how WWII fighter designs reveal core reliability principles still essential in today’s industrial and ...

A black-and-white photo of a P-47 Thunderbolt airplane being pushed on the runway by a maintenance crew - Bettmann/Getty Images The real-world analog for the "Star Wars" Y-wing starfighter is less ...

The Chrysler IV-2220 was conceived as a 16-cylinder Hemi aircraft engine that could have transformed American fighter ...

One massive 16-cylinder HEMI engine was made by Chrysler and was poised to improve fighter planes during World War II. Only a ...

Those futuristic spacecraft in "Star Wars" didn't come out of nowhere. X-wings are basically space Spitfires, and Y-wings rework this World War II fighter.

After decades of searching and scientific analysis, remains of 22-year-old WWII fighter pilot killed in fiery crash are ...

Adm. William Furlong was a U.S. Navy rear admiral during World War II and served as Chief of Naval Ordnance from 1937 to 1941 ...

Built in 1941, Diamond Lil was one of the first Liberators to enter combat. B-24s were used in every theater of the war.

Tomorrow evening, the Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum honors St. Charles native Arthur 'Art' Donahue, a WWII hero who ...

The experimental XF-12 Rainbow could take continuous photographs from 8 miles up as it sped cross country in the 1940s.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...