While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.

The premium features you find on cars these days all tend to fall within a fairly narrow definition of practical luxury, but ...

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

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.

This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...

The US Air Force Museum boasts the world's greatest aircraft displays with some of its rarest and most iconic aircraft.

Chevalier/Air Force) Conceived by a German émigré who had once designed Messerschmitt fighters before ... when fitted with a British Merlin engine, could “go as fast and as far as the bombers ...

Robert "Bob" Hickman dropped out of school at age 18 and enlisted in the Army Air Corps at Fort Hayes, Columbus in February 1943.

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