AN incredible ‘jet fighter with wheels’ that was unveiled back in the 1950s was once seen as the future of motoring. But the bizarre looking set of wheels never entered production and has since ...
In the early 1950s, jet war broke out above North Korea, pitting American F-86 Sabres against Soviet MiG-15s in a series of epic dogfights. This conflict, popularly known as the Korean War ...
While this event is popularly remembered as a monumental step for aviation, the groundwork was laid much earlier with the narrowbody aircraft of the 1950s. The British de Havilland DH 106 Comet ...
The Air Force had a problem. The new — in the 1950s — jets needed long landing approaches and timely landings since they burned more fuel at lower altitudes. According to the Air Force ...