American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...

It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over.

NASM copy 39088010892578 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...

Aircraft For Sale's "Today’s Top Pick" is a 1974 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21UM, a trainer version of the iconic Soviet jet fighter. The article notes a shift in the "warbird" community, with Eastern Bloc ...

A few designs stand the test of time. The B-52 Stratofortress first flew in 1952, yet remains in service today. New C-130 cargo aircraft continue to roll off the production line, based on a design ...

"At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters--a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s, types that should have ...

India has retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, closing a six-decade chapter with an aircraft once hailed for its combat prowess but later derided as a “flying coffin” due to frequent crashes ...