The USS Wasp (CV-7) was an aircraft carrier built under the constraints of the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited its ...

Aircraft carriers weren't much of an option either since planes need to meet specific requirements to launch from one. Planes such as the B-17 Flying Fortresses that helped win World War II and ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers ... And there were all kinds of jobs.” World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy.

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 ...

One of the most sinister aircraft ... World War II, the Junkers Ju 87, was a dive bomber notable for its shallow V-shaped wings and its high-pitched diving whine. Also known as the Stuka, the ...

Today we’ll find out how a World War II fighter-bomber was squeezed into an exhibition space on the former aircraft carrier Intrepid ... with a scale model of the plane, the elevator and ...

This article is the first in a two-part series on “Operation Whale Tail,” the CIA’s ambitious project to reformat a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane for aircraft carrier use. The second article ...

there it is — a newly restored World War II FG-1D Corsair fighter-bomber. Corsairs were among the most flown aircraft from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier that served in ...