What people likely don't imagine is a turboprop aircraft. After all, the age of jets came about during the final years of World War II, and that conflict featured plenty of turboprop fighters.

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United ...

The National Air and Space Museum is located between 6th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C., the capital of ...

The most effective and preferred single-pilot fighter aircraft machine gun mounting ... However, there was the small issue of having a propeller in the way. It would not do to cut away the ends ...

The resulting plane, of which only 272 were built, ultimately set the world record for longest nonstop flight of a propeller-driven fighter at 8,129 km (5,051 mi) and ended up being the last ...

The Sea Fury is one of the only two prop-driven fighters to manage to shoot down ... some 24 Hawker Sea Furies were listed on the US civil aircraft register (although not necessarily active).

The history of the fighter jet has dominated the 20th century. See how they've evolved from rudimentary experiments to ...

As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

The propeller-driven Skyraider II pays homage to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the Vietnam War.