The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is pleased to announce that Charles Lynch has joined the Board of Trustees. Lynch, an AOPA member since 1993, recently retired as Senior Vice ...

In this episode, we take a closer look at some of the more unusual Allied prototype aircraft of the early 1940s—designs that broke away from conventional warplane thinking of their time. Though they ...

The Hellcat’s forgiving flight characteristics and durability allowed less experienced pilots to survive early engagements and gain greater experience against the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

Few machines capture the imagination like the sleek silhouette of a German warplane carving through the sky. Whether you remember catching newsreels of Heinkel bombers or reading about experimental ...

During World War II, Nazi Germany explored bold schemes to carry the fight across the Atlantic. Among them were plans to bomb New York City, using experimental long-range aircraft and rocket ...

The V-1 "flying bomb" could accurately be described in today’s nomenclature as an unmanned aerial vehicle — moreover, as the first suicide drone.