In 1949, the U.S. Navy called for a tail-sitting interceptor to protect its convoys—capable of launching vertically and flying at near supersonic speeds. The Martin 262 answered with three unique ...

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

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 ...

This brings us to the Fission, a twin-engine fighter arranged in a push-me, pull-you configuration like the German Dornier Do-335 Pfeil, the fastest super-prop of World War II. In our opinion ...

the last propeller-driven fighter of the British Royal Navy’s (RN) Fleet Air Arm. As already noted, the Sea Fury missed out on WWII. However, it more than made up for lost time by fighting in ...

In 1942, the Bell P-59, the United States’ first jet engine fighter aircraft ... Bell aircraft ended up in the Soviet Air Force, where prop-driven planes like the P-39 Airacobra were used ...