Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps ...

The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a rich collection of WWII aircraft kept in airworthy condition, such as their Mitsubishi A6M Zero (whose story you can read here: Planes of Fame’s A6M5 Zero, The Last ...

“Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39.” That is one of the verses from the humorous Air Force traditional drinking song ...

Do you want to know why people don't build mid-engined airplanes anymore? It's because it took until after the Second World War for folks to realize mid-engined vehicles don't make practical sense ...

Although the American P-39 failed to win hearts at home, in the USSR it became a real star. Top Soviet pilots didn’t want to swap even when faster and more powerful aircraft came along. American ...

THE best planes in the world are no better than the worst if you can catch them on the ground, as the Germans caught the Polish air force in September 1939 and the French air force in May 1940, and as ...

ALPENA, MI – A Tuskegee Airman died when his Bell P-39Q Airacobra crashed in Lake Huron on April 11, 1944 - 81 years ago. Today, a piece of that wreckage can be seen from anywhere with an internet ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Colored offset lithograph of a Bell ...

World of Warplanes made its debut on Steam earlier this month, at last bringing another piece of the Wargaming catalog to Valve's store with 12v12 dogfights amid the golden age of military aviation.