The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many impressive machines as the United States. From the 1940s onwards, the US created ...

Twenty years prior to 1969 most air forces had been flying piston-engined fighters essentially no different from those of World War II. In the following twenty years, top speeds almost quadrupled and ...

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