As a result, the standard aircraft models were transformed into specialized ... Interestingly, the basic principle was not a ...

During World War II, before the age of computer-generated aircraft engineering drawings, thousands of skilled draftsmen created tens of thousands of drawings for every aspect of every model of ...

Delta wings also appealed to me, such as the World War II Lippisch P.13. The majority of model designs, however, were versions of more conventional civilian aircraft, such as Cessnas, Wacos ...

It's hard to imagine now in our globalized world, but many of the young American soldiers who headed onto massive ships like ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower ... making its service time much shorter than others. While early models suffered losses against the Japanese Zeroes, switching to ...

Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody crashed on April 11, 1944. His was one of about 200 military aircraft lost the Great Lakes during World War II.