The Great War was a fascinating time for airplanes – the Wright brothers had just recently invented the airplane in 1903, and militaries found out mounting machine guns (only after figuring out how ...

Aerial combat is very complicated on its face, when you think about it. Two or more large metal husks basically have to defy gravity, while also attempting to fire weapons at each other. Accurately.

The replica, Sophie, pays homage to the original Sopwith 1½ Strutter, a versatile British biplane introduced during the First World War. This pioneering aircraft was notable for being the first ...

Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father's war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing his anguished screams in the dark of sleepless nights. For ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and I’m hung over in the hull gunner of an M36 Jackson ...