During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class ...
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 ...
An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San Diego on a long-term loan ...
During World War II, before the age of computer-generated ... date is the brake pedal that North American used in all of their most iconic aircraft. Tame rudder pedal used in the T-6, the T ...
"He told me all about the base where he trained ... and the crowds are just getting bigger." Aircraft kept at the Victorian airfield during WWII included Hawker Demon biplanes, CAC (Commonwealth ...
Jennifer McMullen, a member of an all-female "Rosie the Riveter" crew who worked at a Burbank aircraft plant during WWII, ...
A discovery by the Museum and National Trust has revealed that not only did the Falkland Islands donate Spitfires to the British war effort in World War II but also three aircraft to the Royal ...
The historic aircraft was one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortresses made by the Boeing Company during World War II. Today, the B-29 Doc is one of only two of its kind that is still able to fly.
and, most recently, at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. Visitors can find the F4U on the hangar deck of the USS Midway near other WWII aircraft.