As American forces pushed toward Iwo Jima in February 1945, escort carriers played a vital role, launching air support, resupplying squadrons, and defending the fleet. But Japanese forces had turned ...

Long considered the "Holy Grail" of WWII U.S. naval aircraft recoveries, a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber may soon be ...

By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the * ...

A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber ...

As the Kareliya sailed toward Russia's Far East, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Sea of Okhotsk north ...

Modern aerospace behaviour reflects a legacy of historical commitments made under pressure and carried forward through regulation, safety, and state power . The historical moments that shaped modern ...

Looking like an AI fever-dream, the Burnelli UB-14 was a bizarre, and extremely ugly, aeroplane that first flew in 1934. Its ...

China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on Tuesday. The U.S. report says that the People’s ...

From a distance, it looks like a war plane imagined by Hayao Miyazaki, or the type of machine that could only exist in a science fiction novel. But according to aviation enthusiasts who captured ...

The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday. An unmanned system on a contracted ...

Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories Francine ...