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

Discover the untold story of Soviet flying aircraft carriers, a groundbreaking WWII innovation! Designed to unleash swarms of fighters and bombers, these airborne juggernauts aimed to rewrite the ...

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

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Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were ...

Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...

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

Harry S. Stewart Jr., a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for three kills in a ...

The island of Tinian was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

A Canton McKinley student became a member of the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen World War II Army Air Force unit. Here's the ...