Some of the fastest fighter jets ever built date back decades, yet many still outrun modern designs on raw speed alone. This breakdown ranks the quickest fighters on record, explains why they were ...

The story behind the legend.

For a tiny group of pilots and collectors, the dream of flying at fighter-jet speeds without a military call sign is not fantasy but a line item in a very large budget. The fastest aircraft civilians ...

For a period the F-4 was the workhorse of US airpower able to fill many roles thanks to its large aircraft, range, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. f 22 raptor The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many ...

The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many impressive machines as the United States. From the 1940s onwards, the US created ...