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The Legacy of the P-80 Shooting Star The emergence of jet and rocket technology during World War II revolutionized the f ...
In that spirit, America’s most advanced fighter plane, the F-35, along with the American and Korean versions of the F-15 and Korean T-50 trainers, have been in the air high over the training area ...
The F-80 Shooting Star is a fighter-bomber aircraft that was first introduced in 1945, but it did not see any action in World War II. Instead, the Shooting Star would go on to make up a large part ...
Senior veterans from around the area got the chance to fly in a World War 2 era biplane for free on Wednesday at Wittman ...
During the Korean War, B-50s primarily served as long range reconnaissance vessels. The RB-50 could reach a maximum altitude of 37,000 feet and cover a range of 4,650 miles.
The very messiness of definition and outcome in Korea has contemporary resonance, given the difficulty of imagining what a ...
“This particular plane we want to share with Korean War veterans, because that’s the era this plane is from,” retired Lt. Col. Jim Burch, the pilot for Friday’s flight, said.
When the giant cargo plane touched down at a coastal airstrip in ... the U.S. and North Korea has stymied once-promising efforts to recover the remains of 5,200 troops lost during the Korean War.
After World War II, the U.S. military sought to replace piston engines. Enter the Grumman F9F Panther, a massive step up in power and technology.
It began active service in the US Army Air Corp in 1944, and is best known as the aircraft whose missions over Japan helped bring an end to World War II. The B-29 also was used in the Korean War ...
HO CHI MINH CITY -- The U.S. has delivered five trainer aircraft to Vietnam in the biggest arms shipment to its former enemy since the end of the Vietnam War five decades ago. The delivery of T-6C ...