Some people raised questions about the U.S. Air Force choosing Boeing over Lockheed Martin as the developer of its ...
A mysterious unit patch tied to the Air Force’s F-47—its sixth-gen NGAD fighter—has been confirmed as a real, early design. -The circular crest shows a phoenix, six red stars, and what looks like ...
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Fighter Aircraft: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

A successful high-altitude bomber and America's leading fighter in the ground-attack role, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ...
Imagine it’s 1943, and you have to transport 1,000 P-47 fighter planes from your factory in the United States to the front lines in Europe, roughly 5,000 miles over the open ocean. Flying them isn’t ...
“The P-47 was one of the most versatile aircraft we had in World War II,” says Jeremy Kinney, curator and chair of the aeronautics department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which ...