The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries.

205V was the most advanced Italian WWII fighter. Two years after the end of the conflict, the Macchi company decided to relaunch the production. Egyptians came shopping for a fighter aircraft to ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower ... of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

Outside Italy, however, it failed to achieve as much fame as contemporary fighters of other ... one of many enemy aircraft brought to the United States after World War II for evaluation at the ...

STOVL aircraft are also stationed at the first operational F-35 base, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., and are completing flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Italian Air ...

Rome could buy the Japanese Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft to tackle hostile submarines in the Mediterranean, a ...