A biplane used by Britain throughout the WWI, the Handley Page Type O was one of the largest aircraft ever designed when it ...
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE2 was a two-seat Pusher ... This arrangement was described by Frederick Libby, the first American ace of World War I as follows: “When you stood up to shoot, all ...
The Blériot XI remains one of the most important aircraft in the history of aviation, with the record-setting flights across the English Channel launching inspiration for aviators around the world.
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was among the aircrafts used in Japan's attacks on the U.S. at places like Pearl Harbor in 1942, devastating American planes at the time. The lightweight aircraft was ...
The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...
A fighter plane, that -- her peaceful zoological namesake notwithstanding -- became a legend, mainly due to her real-life exploits in the deadly skies of WWI aerial combat...but also further ...
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission ...
Borrowing inspiration from the synchronization mechanics of WWI fighter aircraft, this innovation could redefine approaches to cancer and heart disease treatments, as well as tissue engineering.
A replica of Yeager’s P-51 Mustang WWII-era fighter is displayed above the restaurant. Jose M. Osorio Sacramento Bee file Dubbed “Glamorous Glen,” the plane was stationed atop a 46-foot ...
For years, he worked to educate people about the historic B-17 aircraft, a four-engine bomber that was integral to US air operations during WWII. At a raucous Washington rally, the president-elect ...