In August 1942, as the Pacific War intensified around Guadalcanal, Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and his squadron of Zero fighters believed they had spotted an easy target below. The formation appeared ...

At Midway, a slow, rugged dive bomber helped change the course of World War II. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was not glamorous, but it delivered devastating accuracy when it mattered most. In just ...

Aviation Radioman 1st Class Dave Cawley sat in the rear seat of his SBD Dauntless dive bomber aboard the USS Enterprise on the morning of Feb. 17, 1944, preparing for the most dangerous mission of his ...

The new EC-2 Stand-Off Jammer aircraft, based on the Kawasaki C-2 transport aircraft, will replace the unique EC-1 which has been in service since 1986. The latest in a number of Japanese aircraft ...

Four people are dead after a small plane crashed Friday into mountainous terrain near the Colorado ski resort community of Steamboat Springs, authorities said. An Epic E1000, a six-seat turboprop ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is decertifying all aircraft made in Canada as retaliation against the country for not certifying jets from Georgia-based Gulfstream Aerospace. In a post on ...

A Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on Thursday. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/U.S. Navy via AP) The aircraft ...

Japan’s Joint Staff Office reported a Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) aircraft flew southwest over the Sea of Japan, Jan. 23, 2026. Japan Joint Staff Office photo Japan scrambled fighter ...

Private charter carrier JSX to fly to Las Vegas and Scottsdale from history Santa Monica Airport, buy up to 30 of the populaar ATR turboprops for use from smaller airports. An ATR turboprop in JSX ...

Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a broken part that contributed to a UPS plane crash that killed 15 last year but at that point the planemaker didn’t believe it threatened safety, the National ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida. (Alex Brandon/AP) The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. tbd devestator For every Spitfire, Mustang or Fw 190, there was a plane as terrible as these aeroplanes were fabulous. Considering ...