Author: Peter E. Davies

With first-hand insight into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the Fi...

World War II saw the development of the heavy bomber as a decisive weapon which, in sufficient numbers, could overcome defensive fighters and guns ...

The six Douglas D-558 research aircraft, built as two variants, were produced for a US Navy and NACA collaborative project to investigate flight in...

While the F 105 Thunderchief was the USAF''s principal strike weapon during the Rolling Thunder campaign, the US Navy relied on the Douglas A-4 Sky...

McDonnells F-101 Voodoo series was in many ways the most interesting of the Century Series fighter programmes of the 1950s, partly because the type...

Half a century before the 'flying wing' B-2 stealth bomber entered service, John K. Jack Northrop was already developing prototypes of a large 'fly...

Even before the spectacular success of its X-1 rocket-powered aircraft in breaking the sound barrier, the adventurous Bell Aircraft Corporation was...

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used...

Often described as the US Army''s aerial jeep the UH-1 Iroquois (''Huey'') was the general-purpose vehicle that provided mobility in a hostile jung...

Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to ...

Ever since its introduction in the late 1950s, the B-52 Stratofortress has been the United States primary heavy bomber and a powerful symbol of its...