The P-61 was also well-armed for its night-fighter role and included ... and also was the aircraft that scored the final two aerial "kills" of World War II. One was on the last night of the ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower ... of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

The Royal Australian Air Force has unveiled the restoration of a World War II P-40E Kittyhawk A29-90 aircraft, also known as ...

Now, several years after World War II (WWII), many aircraft call ... hours while the RAF Bomber Command flew at night. Another fighter aircraft with a nickname was the Bristol Beaufighter.

It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out how a World War II fighter-bomber was squeezed into an exhibition space on the former aircraft carrier Intrepid. We’ll also get details on new census data ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

A WW2 Baltimore attack bomber aircraft wreck belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force was discovered off the coast of ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

As a fighter ... Aircraft Wing, Foss never displayed his rare aerial skills more than above Guadalcanal. In the Allies' first major offensive against the Japanese during World War II, he also ...

A discovery by the Museum and National Trust has revealed that not only did the Falkland Islands donate Spitfires to the British war effort in World War II ... aircraft operated as a day and night ...