Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...

The Luftwaffe's Dornier Do 335 Fighter was so fast that German aviators nicknamed it the Pfeil or Arrow. In fact, it was the fastest piston-engine fighter of World War II. The Do 335 was a unique ...

The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

Every air force needs its own nimble, lightweight, single-engine fighter jet. For the United States, that's Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Eagle, a fighter jet that's been around since 1979. For ...

As a fighter jet, the F-15 needs to have a massive amount of fuel, especially when it is traveling at supersonic speeds.