As part of our ongoing series Today in Aviation History, we discuss the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s first purpose-built ...

The Naval History and Heritage Command remarks, “The F6F accounted for 5,223 enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat, the ...

From WWII dogfighters to supersonic interceptors, these iconic carrier aircraft forged the legacy of US naval air power as a ...

In WWII, this role was carried out in the US ... that had the means to detect and eliminate submarines. Thus, the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation laid out the design for an aircraft ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower ... and a turbocharger for high-altitude flying. The Grumman F6F Hellcat could be ranked among the top aircrafts; however, it was ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers ... 30-NA Mustang National Air and Space Museum Eastern Division FM-1 (Grumman F4F-4) ...

He died when his Grumman Hellcat plane crashed into the ... for Britain and being part of the first licensed dig for a WW2 aircraft in NI. Mr McNee also mentioned his efforts in bringing family ...

Lockheed Martin is the F-35 prime contractor, while Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems are ... British and Italian aircraft carriers.

The B-21 Raider is a sixth-generation aircraft intended to serve as the ... spirit" of 80 airmen who changed the course of World War II with the Doolittle Raid. The "Raider" name was submitted ...

The US Navy (USN) awarded Northrop Grumman a USD3.4 billion engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract to ...