Italy was thought to be the first country to fly a jet-powered plane (although they were second after Germany's He 178), ...

Since the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, aviation has evolved at a breathtaking pace, shaping human history and ...

With that long preamble/soapbox speech aside, let’s get on with what I consider to be the five best fighter jets of World War II. Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”) (Nazi Germany ...

The de Havilland Vampire fighter jet successfully landed on the HMS Ocean aircraft carrier in945. See photos of the historic ...

On an otherwise mundane Army Airfield in rural Indiana, a group of high-tech German warplanes brought stateside as war ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

The Stipa-Caproni is sometimes claimed to be an early flying proto-jet and was one of the most unorthodox aircraft designs of the 1930s.

What people likely don't imagine is a propeller-driven aircraft. After all, the age of jets came about during the final years of World War II, and that conflict featured plenty of propeller-driven ...

Leading on from Ohain’s work, the first flight of a jet-powered aircraft was in August 27, 1939. By the end of World War II, a smattering of military jet aircraft had entered service ...

WHEN talk of national service returned to public conversation, there was a measure of excitement that teenagers and young ...

Sweden's Gripen, a fighter jet built for a war with Russia, is considered a good fit for Ukraine, but the aircraft hasn't been tested the way it could be in this war. Not only could giving the ...