World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.

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

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

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

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

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

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

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file Share Anthony Faikus did just about anything he wanted. He was a World War II fighter pilot, an author of a memoir, a robust gymnast and a strong swimmer who at nearly 90 ...

He was one of two of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed combat pilots of World War II.

A U.S. Air Force press release on Tuesday said an F-35A fighter aircraft took part in a test known as "integrated combat turn" (ICT) at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, where ground crews ...

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

Stewart celebrates his “hat trick” after downing three Nazi aircraft ... one of two surviving combat pilots from the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, a segregated all-Black wing of ...