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Boeing’s P-26 Peashooter Fighter Plane was Far Deadlier Than It Looked
When I first learned about the P-26 as a mere five-year-old lad via the 1958 book Fighter Planes That Made History, I thought ...
The National Interest on MSN13d
Italy’s Macchi C.202 Folgore Was a Great WWII Plane. Why Has No One Ever Heard of It?
The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its ...
Time Out28d
A first look at the new WWII plane and an impressive exhibit at NYC's Intrepid Museum
It's hard to imagine now in our globalized world, but many of the young American soldiers who headed onto massive ships like ...
All That's Interesting on MSN9d
Australian WWII plane wreck discovered off the coast of Greece
The wreck of the RAAF plane Baltimore FW282, which was shot down by the Nazis in December 1943, was found in the Aegean Sea ...
A US Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII. Here's why
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...
Daily Mail3d
Russian war planes detected flying off coast of America
Aircraft are expected to identify themselves in the ADIZ, and NORAD says it surveils the area to maintain national security. It comes just two months after US fighter jets were scrambled to the ...
Wreckage of WWII bomber Baltimore FW282 found in Aegean Sea after 80 years
After lying undetected beneath the Aegean Sea for over eight decades, the wreckage of a Second World War bomber, the ...
Politico28d
Trump picks Boeing to build next-generation fighter plane
President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing had won a massive, $20 billion contract for the Air Force’s next-generation fighter ... allies” will also be interested in the new aircraft.