In 1949, the U.S. Navy called for a tail-sitting interceptor to protect its convoys—capable of launching vertically and ...

Aiming a machine gun through a biplane's propellers was no easy feat. Then along came an invention that made it possible to ...

The last variant of the successful Focke-Wulf Fw-190 received a different designation - Ta-152, after Kurt Tank, its chief designer. Considered by some to be the best piston-engine fighter of WW2, it ...

A-1 Skyraider: The Prop-Powered Attack Aircraft That Defied the Jet Era Dating back to the 1970s and beginning in the 1950s, jet engines were standard in U.S. fighter/attack aircraft. Nearly ...

And while they're mostly found in fighter jets, some propeller aircraft, like the top World War II fighters and other aerobatic planes, exhibit some of these qualities too. If you have the money ...