While a longstanding myth recounts the tale of World War One ace Ernst Udet becoming enamored with US Navy Curtiss F11C-2 Goshawk biplane dive bombers, the truth is the aircraft had been in ...

That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...

In 1934, the United States Navy issued a requirement for a new carrier borne scout bomber that could double as a dive bomber. The specification accepted entries for both monoplane and biplane ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Perhaps no weapon was as closely associated with the Nazi German in early in World War II as the Stuka dive bomber, infamous for howling,... Here’s What You ...