With 12,731 airframes thundering off assembly lines into the line of fire, Boeing's wartime B-17 Flying Fortress set the ...

On March 16, 1916, the U.S. Army's 1st Aero Squadron flew its first military mission over foreign territory during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico.

ST. HELENA — To Mike Nieman, the smell of his large Pratt & Whitney “Wasp Major” radial aircraft engine running is “the smell of victory.” “That smell is of a working engine that made this country ...

Fighter planes get a lot of press. Fast, sleek, and impossibly advanced, the image of the knights of the sky dueling to the death in their cockpits is a highly romanticized facet of aerial warfare.

The continent of Europe has created some of the most capable military aircraft in history, indeed the first combat action by an aeroplane was in Italian service. In the First World War, all of the ...

Boeing is best recognized by the general public today for its giant commuter jets (as well as more than a few in-air mishaps with the 737 Max of late), and more entartaining projects like building a ...

Aircraft are chosen for all sorts of reasons when it comes to military applications. Not every mission flown needs a state-of-the-art fighter jet bristling with missiles and ordnance. Sometimes, ...

Surface-to-air missiles invalidated speed and altitude as reliable survivability strategies faster than planners anticipated. Interceptor missions vanished as strategic threats shifted from bombers to ...

Military aircraft are typically judged by specifications and engineering elegance. But sometimes combat history repeatedly shows that those measures can be misleading. Some aircraft entered service ...

Crew skill and tactical adaptation determined combat aircraft effectiveness more than design quality across multiple conflicts. The F-4 Phantom achieved high kill ratios only after Top Gun training ...