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 ...

Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those of World War II. In the following twenty years, top speeds almost quadrupled and ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...

What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns?

The United States and China are racing to field their next-generation, or the so-called "sixth-generation," fighter aircraft, which are designed to be superior to the most advanced combat jets that ...

A Messerschmitt Bf-109 G-6 in for work at Midwest Aero Restorations at the Vermilion Regional Airport in Danville on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. The company specializes in WWII fighter airplane ...