Born out of Cold War desperation, the XF-84H Thunderscreech was a radical experiment in aircraft propulsion. Aiming to combine the climb rate of a propeller plane with the speed of a jet, engineers ...

On June 20, 1965, North Vietnamese MiG-17 pilots circled the wreckage of a downed American F-4 Phantom, confident the skies were now theirs. Usually, the next aircraft to arrive would be another ...