The F-82 was an aircraft born in the wrong era. The German fielding of the Messerschmitt ME-262 at the Second World War’s close signaled the dawn of the jet-powered fighter. As the Korean War ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...

It served as a stepping stone to the skies but also ushered in a new generation of fighter aircraft ... and how it owned the skies during the Korean War so much that it followed it on with ...

American transport planes began the evacuation back to Japan, and the airport was strafed the second day of the war by two North Korean Yak-9 fighter aircraft. A fuel depot was set ablaze ...

j.g. John Koelsch was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism as a rescue helicopter pilot during the Korean War. (U.S. Naval ... and from there to the aircraft carrier Princeton ...