Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. B 29 GettyImages 517220374 Bettmann Getty Images The history of aviation is wild. The world went from the first powered flight in ...

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 ...

Allied ingenuity produced a number of great fighter aircraft that would prove instrumental in their victory in World War 2 The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were each capable ...

The search for more destructive firepower in the air started long before the Second World War, but by the 1940s it had turned ...