The Great War was a fascinating time for airplanes – the Wright brothers had just recently invented the airplane in 1903, and militaries found out mounting machine guns (only after figuring out how ...

Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father's war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing his anguished screams in the dark of sleepless nights. For ...

Aerial combat is very complicated on its face, when you think about it. Two or more large metal husks basically have to defy gravity, while also attempting to fire weapons at each other. Accurately.