Two British fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea in recent days, the UK defence ministry ...

Designed in 1939, the Lockheed L-133 was decades ahead of its time—a futuristic jet fighter that could’ve made the U.S. the ...

The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first jet fighter produced by the United States, rushed into development after witnessing Britain’s secret jet technology. Equipped with twin General Electric turbojets ...

The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries.

A critical advantage to the Mosquito’s wooden construction was its relatively light weight—giving it a fantastic top speed of ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

General Electric is way more than microwaves and refrigerators. GE Aerospace has been providing America's front line fighters ...

Oceanographers were startled to discover the car inside the wreck of the U.S.S. Yorktown, which participated in the Battle of Midway and is now on the ocean floor.

After lying undetected beneath the Aegean Sea for over eight decades, the wreckage of a Second World War bomber, the Baltimore FW282, was discovered near the Greek island of Antikythera. The aircraft, ...

A World War II bomber shot down by Nazi fighters in December 1943 has finally been discovered 82 years later, submerged 61 ...

Submarines toil beneath the waves while airplanes fly above them, right? So how would a sub shoot anti-aircraft missiles at a ...

Vesna Vulović, trapped in the tail section of the DC-9 as it plummeted to Earth, survived the crash in a snow-covered forest, ...