Opinion: Why U.S. Air Force Might Make The Fighter Aircraft Obsolete
The armament of a UK Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 pursuit biplane on the Sept. 15, 1918, cover of Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering magazine, precursor to Aviation Week & Space Technology.
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Martin Caidin’s The Last Dogfight, published in 1974, is a fictional tale of the final engagement of World War II in the Pacific between a P-38 and a Japanese Zero flown by two pilots who knew of and respected each other. Of course, that was not the last dogfight by any stretch; the “art” has...
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