In one of aviation’s most improbable victories, a Royal Navy Sea Fury - a piston-engine fighter - shot down a Soviet-built ...

The power and speed of the iconic P-51 Mustang made it one of the most revered fighter jets in World War II. It even had a ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for ...

Over the past 80 years, the air forces of the world have ripped through the skies in five generations of jet fighters. The ...

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant.

The F-16 Fighting Falcon and the MiG-35 Fulcrum-F are both mature approaches to the modern multirole fighter, but differ ...