Volunteers at the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum are nearing completion of a major F-8 Crusader restoration after more than ...

The Crusader entered service looking like the Navy’s answer to everything, fast, heavily armed, and able to go supersonic in ...

Key point: The F-4 was so remarkably adaptable and tough that the last U.S. military Phantom wasn’t retired until December 2016. Had things gone differently, the U.S. Navy’s top Cold War fighter jet ...

The first several decades of aerial combat were fought with conventional firearms. World War I planes like the Sopwith Camel used dual Vickers .303 caliber machine guns not unlike the machine guns ...

This book covers the actions fought between two of the best known fighters of the Vietnam War, in action over the North during the early years of the conflict. Revered by Naval Aviators as the "last ...

Click to open image viewer. The F8U Crusader was the first carrier-based jet fighter to exceed 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) per hour. Its variable-incidence wing, which could elevate up to seven ...