Continuous upgrades, new engines, and modern radar are keeping the B-52 Stratofortress on track to become the first jet ...

The F-117 Nighthawk did something no American combat jet had done before: it turned near-invisibility into an operational weapon system rather than a laboratory trick. Long before stealth became a ...

When we think about the dawn of jet-powered warfare, the name Messerschmitt Me 262 often gets top billing. But the story starts a bit earlier than you might think. The true roots of the jet age trace ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The XP-59A is the first American jet aircraft. It did not see combat but it did give the U. S. Army Air Forces (AAF) ...

De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England (CNN) — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments ...

The Kikka itself was a sleek, compact aircraft with a design that reflected both German influence as well as Japanese adaptation to local resources and constraints. The Second World War was a period ...

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