Also in the Middle East, the 1973 Battle of El Mansoura, between Egypt and Israel, lasted just under an hour and involved up to 164 Israeli planes and 62 Egyptian aircraft. Israel suffered the heavier ...

Granite State Flight #53, Order of Daedalians remembered NH’s flying Aces recently. Five have ties to the Seacoast.

Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

A Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero, the first Model 32 variant to fly since 1945, has successfully completed its first flight after an ...

Legend had it that Dorothy Furey was the daughter of a wealthy banana importer. Legend had it that her family lost a fortune ...

Nikolai Shishkin was 19 years old when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. In 1940, after finishing school, he was called ...

May 8, 1944, is a day Bob Russell remembers well. A fighter/bomber pilot with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, he was in a ...

During World War II, American fighter pilots relied on specialized uniforms, survival gear, and flight equipment to withstand the extreme conditions of aerial combat. But what exactly did they wear in ...

Colin Bell joined the RAF aged just 19 and was part of 608 Squadron (Pathfinder Group) in Norfolk. He flew a Mosquito bomber ...

The aircraft went down two days before the VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations, but it is not clear if the plane's flight ...

THIS is the shocking moment a Spitfire crash landed in a field while “practising for a VE Day event”. The 82-year-old World War II fighter aircraft made the emergency landing in a ...