Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World ...

The scoop was an inlet that directed air through a radiator. Scientist F.W. Meredith determined that having a cooling air ...

JANESVILLE – Pistons and Props, a car and airplane show that debuted in 2024 at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport, is ...

This month, we are looking back on July of 1945 – 80 years ago. World War II was months away from ending, and that was none ...

Though the B-17D was eased into the water in the trough between waves, it still struck with such force that bolted-down ...

In World War II, American pilots like those flying the P-51 Mustang were heroes in the skies. But one ace’s journey ended not in battle, but on the ground at the hands of civilians. Captured ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe forever.

During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European ...

Arguably, the last such man is James McCubbin, a North American P-51D Mustang pilot of the Eighth Air Force who is currently under consideration — at 103 years old.

For starters, the North American P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire will enter the chat for aesthetic reasons alone. Further, history fans may credit the Mitsubishi A6M ‘Zero’ and Aichi D3A ‘Val’ ...

One of the most recognizable P-51 Mustangs from the post-war era makes its home at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot. Thunderbird, a P-51C now owned by pilot Warren Pietsch, one of the ...