History has its share of forgotten aircraft carriers. These long-forgotten ships were often testbeds for new technologies and strategies.

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.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of duplicate ...

One of the biggest draws for aviation geeks to visit Tucson is to see decommissioned or otherwise idle aircraft. Two sites have become renowned for hosting these types of airplanes from around the ...

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, ...

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 ...

F-22 production stopped at 187 aircraft and B-2 at 21 bombers due to extreme procurement and development costs. Specialized interceptors like the MiG-25 and F-106 lost relevance when strategic ...

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 ...

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 ...

In large part, industry won World War II. As the United States converted to a total war economy, it banned the sale of new cars and switched its efforts to building the tools to win the war. Not only ...