Here’s What You Need to Remember: The XF-90 reportedly achieved supersonic speeds fifteen times. However, in August 1950 the XF-90 was pitted in a fly-off against the McDonnell Douglas XF-88 Voodoo, ...

Key point: During the early days of the Cold War, it was assumed that nuclear weapons might well be used in the next war. Naturally, the U.S. Air Force needed to test the durability of its aircraft.

The ‘Blackhawk’ name has proved popular for aircraft, and there was also Carr SBlackhawk racing aircraft of the 1930s, the (also) Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk and today's famous H-60 series helicopters (as ...

Considered one of the most appealing fighters ever built, Lockheeds XF-90 enjoys a first-rate reputation with aviation enthusiasts something of a surprise, given that only two were ever built. While ...

We'd like to believe that every prototype military aircraft goes on to have a long and successful career. But especially in the early days of the Cold War, it simply didn't work out this way. But when ...

What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns? Introducing the Goblin XF-85 – the Cold War compact fighter designed to be ...

Since the early 1940s, the United States has created some of the most capable fighter aircraft in the world. But the road to designing, creating and then selling something as technologically demanding ...