Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

10 Best Japanese warplanes of the Second World War Very few at all, however, pointed out that the 51 hour, 17 minute, 23 second flight over a distance of 15,357 kilometres occurred without any ...

These days, it is often hard to find intact surviving examples of WWII Japanese aircraft, even in Japan itself. Those aircraft that were not shot down, destroyed on the ground in bombing raids, or ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On a quiet corner of Ford Island, a moment in history is turning heads. The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum is home to all three types of Japanese aircraft used in the attack on Pearl ...

The A6M3 Model 32 Zero was resurrected by combining the damaged remains of two aircraft found at Taroa island in the Marshall Islands in early 1990. A Second World War A6M3 Model 32 (Reisen) Zero ...

A team from Texas A&M University is helping in an effort to recover and preserve a World War II aircraft that has been ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and declared Missing in Action. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mitsu Zero Museum of Flight Corbis Getty Images 2 Although often dismissed as ‘followers’ by many both in the lead-up to and ...