Key point: Despite its flaws, the P-38 was a rare early example of a successful “heavy” fighter boasting speed, range, and firepower—similar to modern multi-role fighters like the F-15 and Su-27. In ...
In the time between World War I and World War II, fighter planes underwent rapid changes. During the first World War, the Sopwith F.1 Camel was known as one of the best combat planes around. It had a ...
Frank Royal's Air Force took off at 1:38 p.m. A vintage aircraft clawed through the air followed by two chase planes, one carrying the 101-year-old pilot. The last plane in the formation brought a ...
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Frank Royal’s Air Force took off at 1:38 p.m. A vintage aircraft clawed through the air followed by two chase planes, one carrying the 101-year-old pilot. The last plane in the ...
It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War II ...
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Nebraska Air National Guard Honors WWII P-38 Pilot with Special Heritage KC-135 Stratotanker
The KC-135 heritage jet will remain in service with its WWII-inspired paint scheme until 2025. The Nebraska Air National Guard's 155th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) unveiled a historic KC-135R Stratotanker ...
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. -- Glacier Girl has roared back to life, nearly 60 years after being abandoned on a glacier in Greenland and entombed under hundreds of feet of snow and ice. The P-38 Lightning, one ...
On July 8, 1944, a P-38 piloted by 23-year-old 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon crash-landed in a deeply wooded area near Waldegg, Austria after a flight sweep to Vienna with the 48th Fighter ...
A fighter plane that vanished 80 years ago during a WWII-era raid on Italy has been found in the country’s sea, according to a report in The Daily Mail. The story eerily mirrors the circumstances ...
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS OCT. 22-23 - In this Monday, Oct. 17, 2016 photo, Seated in the co-pilot seat, World War II pilot Frank Royal, 101, gets ready to take off on his "final flight" in ...
The excavation of a World War II crash site in Austria is being arranged in the coming months after more than a decade of attempts to locate the remains of a P-38 pilot from northwest Arkansas. Lt.
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