When the hastily built Lavochkin La-5 fighter first soared into the aerial arena in July 1943, German pilots waved it off as ...

AeroTime looks back at the World War II Allied ace pilots from the US, UK, France and Soviet Union who became legends of the air.

If anyone could build an air force quickly, surely it would be the Germans. Even after “the few” of the R.A.F. rose to blast the myth of Nazi Luftwaffe invincibility in World War II, Hermann Göring’s ...

The 119th Fighter Squadron at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base has a new flagship: a jet that bears the tail insignia of the Jersey Jerk, the name of the planes that hero pilot Donald J.

With names like Audie Murphy and Claire Lee Chennault associated with Hunt County, and with Majors Airport beginning operations as a training center for the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1942, World War II ...

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

A National Air and Space Museum researcher solves a World War II mystery Richard Whittle Melitta von Stauffenberg was an engineer who insisted on flying her own tests of aircraft modifications she had ...