Captain Ramiro Flores, a U.S. Navy program manager, described the problem of air combat training in one sentence: This program will provide modernized aircraft with exceptional avionics and tactical ...

In 1943, Army pilot Lt. Morton Sher of Greenville was killed and declared missing. Eight decades later, his remains were ...

The P-39 was one of America's first-line pursuit planes in December 1941. It made its initial flight in April 1939 at Wright Field, Ohio, and by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, nearly 600 had ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three ...

As terrible recent conflicts have shown, the fighter aircraft is far from dead and can prove vital for a nation’s survival. The most modern fighters can shoot down an enemy aircraft at a range of 100 ...