Fighter planes were key to the success of air power during the war, but which were the best?

American industry produced nearly two-thirds of all Allied military equipment used during the Second World War, including 297,000 aircraft. These aircraft played a significant role in helping to ...

The Second World War was in many ways an aerial war. While previous wars had taken place on land and sea, and thousands of fighter planes flew over the battlefields of World War I, the development ...

When the Second World War began, the Bf 109 proved superior to Allied aircraft at low and medium altitudes. It could out-dive and outclimb Spitfires and Hurricanes (except at altitudes above ...

World War II, December 1945 edition which details production numbers of US aircraft during the Second World War. We ranked according to the grand total produced over the course of the war and ...

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A group on Vancouver Island that is rebuilding a rare Second World War-era fighter-bomber recently acquired a key component that they hope will help the aircraft take flight. The Hawker ...

It hunted enemy planes in the Second World War and fought forest fires in the Canadian north before sitting for years, broken and deserted on the shores of a frozen lake. Now, a Canadian-made ...