Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The 10 planes that won World War 2

Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological race ensued, where making an aircraft faster, better armed or easier to produce had massive implications.  The sky was awash with horsepower and destruction, and key to the ultimate victory was the right aircraft at the…

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Shenyang J-8 ‘Finback’

The 10 best Chinese military planes

China has gone from 1950s technology in the 1980s to the stealthy combat aircraft of today. No other nation has made such rapid progress in the field of aviation technology in the last forty years as the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The majority of new military aircraft types flown in the last 20 years…

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