Vultee P-66 Vanguard
The P-66 Vanguard looked right. It looked like exactly the kind of World War II fighter that might have won …
The P-66 Vanguard looked right. It looked like exactly the kind of World War II fighter that might have won …
Elegant, glamorous and doomed, the romantic appeal of the airship is hard to resist. Everyone knows the tragic saga of …
The F4U Corsair was one of the great fighters of World War II — one of those classics that captures …
When Marine Corps First Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham arrived at the aviation camp at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, …
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States provided a dramatic warning that even the “world’s hegemon,” as America …
When it first took to the air on June 2, 1958 with test pilot John W. Konrad at the controls, …
Capt. Edward Vernon “Eddie” Rickenbacker was one of the most famous American heroes to emerge from World War I. The …
It is easy to look back from the perspective of 2012, with scores of Aegis cruisers and destroyers populating the …
On Nov. 5, 1942, as the Torch convoy steamed through a gale, Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff …
Even experts on World War II don’t always remember hearing about an American fighter named the XP-78.
But almost every …