These four stand out as the best the ... 17 helped win World War II and could defend itself with its 13 machine gun placements, they weren't nearly as agile as smaller fighter planes and were ...

Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two ... and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

Manufactured from 1938 to 1944, 13,738 Curtis P40-Warhawk fighter planes were produced. Although technological progress in aviation outpaced the Warhawk by the end of WWII, it held the distinction ...

The aircraft was part of Operation Gisela, which saw 117 fighter planes sent to intercept allied bombers returning to base after striking targets in Germany. A number of bombers were brought down ...