World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...
The Bell D-188, a vertical takeoff fighter jet with eight engines, was an ambitious yet impractical marvel of Cold War ...
That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...