Airplanes have long played an important role in wars, conducting reconnaissance and bombing missions — as well as fighting each other in the skies. Close-quarters combat between aircraft is known as ...

In 1930, the critically insane Howard Hughes produced the film Hell’s Angels, ambitiously using hundreds of real planes to re-create WWI dogfights. A superb pilot and certified wild man, Hughes went ...

World War I marked the first time humans fought in the skies, and the results were both thrilling and terrifying. From the feared “Fokker Scourge” to the rise of the first fighter aces, these fragile ...