Aircraft designers have always wrestled with how to squeeze more performance out of the available powerplants and airframes and for those creating fighter…
OK, before I begin, I want to spell out that the designation “ME 209” was applied to two completely different aircraft. But as…
Over the course of history, world powers have worked relentlessly to build the best fighter aircraft. American manufacturers, such as McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed…
The United States currently, and for the foreseeable future, leads the world in military aviation. And nothing represents this better than this, the…
A little while back, I wrote an article/made a video about the Republic XP-47J and titled it “The Fastest Piston Engine Fighter Ever”.…
The late 1960s was a bit of a rough period for the NATO carrier fleet…at least if you weren’t American. A number of…
Anybody who’s seen a dinosaur movie, flipped through a book about dinosaurs, or even driven past a dinosaur museum on the side of…
Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, known among the Allies as “Frank,” was the fastest Japanese single-engine piston fighter that went into combat during the Second…
Are Cassowaries Dinosaurs? If you thought this was some kind of dinosaur foot, you’re not alone! The picture is actually of a cassowary foot…
Dinosaurs were rather scary reptiles. The massive T-rex could bring down other monstrous dinosaurs with a single bite. Even herbivores like Ankylosaurus could smash would-be predators with their…
How Long Were Dinosaurs on Earth? Triassic Period Dinosaurs first arose in the Middle to Late Triassic Period about 230 to 240 million…
A Bonehead with an Unknown Purpose The name pachycephalosaurus means “thick-headed lizard,” and it’s appropriate. The tops of these guys’ skulls were a…