On this day in aviation history, 87 years ago (October 14, 1938), the Curtiss P-40 took to the skies for the first time. The P-40 was an American single-engine fighter aircraft capable of both air ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

Beginning Friday, peer high into the skies above Kansas City - and particularly southern Johnson County - and there is a chance you will see and hear the whirring props of what are aguably some of the ...

As sixth-generation fighter programs ramp up, military insiders are divided over whether future warplanes need pilots at all. The Pentagon is pouring billions into next-generation aircraft, pushing ...