“Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39.” That is one of the verses from the humorous Air Force traditional drinking song ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

Do you want to know why people don't build mid-engined airplanes anymore? It's because it took until after the Second World War for folks to realize mid-engined vehicles don't make practical sense ...

The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a rich collection of WWII aircraft kept in airworthy condition, such as their Mitsubishi A6M Zero (whose story you can read here: Planes of Fame’s A6M5 Zero, The Last ...

If this old warbird could talk, military buffs would be in for a treat – a tale comprising one part adventure, two parts courage and a whole lot of luck. The year was May 1942. Japan’s growing empire ...

BUFFALO -- A team of volunteers is restoring a World War II fighter found at the bottom of a Russian lake and brought back to the upstate New York factory where the plane and thousands of others like ...

Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps ...

Although the American P-39 failed to win hearts at home, in the USSR it became a real star. Top Soviet pilots didn’t want to swap even when faster and more powerful aircraft came along. American ...