CHAMBLEE, Ga. - You probably didn't know it, but a hero flew over thousands of people's heads on Tuesday. For his 100th birthday, World War II veteran Paul Crawford flew a P-51 Mustang. He and the ...

In the decades following World War II, numerous fighter pilots have emerged from the record books to belatedly receive an honor long denied them: credit for downing five enemy aircraft and recognition ...

For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ruinous casualty numbers. The odds of a B-17 crewman surviving the 25 missions required to complete a tour were only one in ...

Part 4 in the P-51 Mustang Series is a once in a life-time experience of flying low level in a wartime P-51! Join me as I get to experience what its like to fly in a wartime P-51 Mustang over the ...

In the wake of WWII, the Department of the Air Force became a stand-alone service on September 18, 1947, created by the National Security Act signed into law by President Harry Truman. FLYING is the ...

The iconic North American P-51 Mustang turned the tide of the air campaign in World War II in the allies’ favor. According to the Military Aviation Museum, a total of 15,586 P-51 Mustangs were built ...

Easily one of the most famous warplanes in history, the P-51 Mustang was manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA). North American, as it is often called, was originally formed as a holding ...