The P-47 Thunderbolt was a machine built around its colossal engine, designed to dominate the skies with speed, altitude, and ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed Cottrell, P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, age 103. Edwin Cottrell was born on ...

By sharing aircraft from the two squadrons that had been airborne at the time of the attack, pilots from all three squadrons got back in the air that afternoon. In the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ...

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt ... to be so twitchy that pilots needed computers ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed Cottrell, P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, age 103. “After graduating and ...