It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

From its first appearance in the skies over the battlefields in 1944, the Yak-3 became a true headache for German pilots. The lightest (over two tons) fighter aircraft of WWII, it had impressive ...

While the emergence of aircraft as a weapon of war occurred in WWI, creating such novel concepts of the dogfight and the flying ace, the technology of those planes was primitive, and their abilities ...

The aircraft was designed on the classic double-wing design of the day and sported a single forward propeller and fixed landing gear beneath the hull. While its war service was limited as a result of ...