In the early 1980s, Japan's government embarked on an ambitious project to develop a new fighter aircraft from scratch, ...

Alaina Lewis with the 90-inch mahogany propeller she made for a Bristol F.2 Fighter, her most challenging job to date. Lewis sanding the hub on a propeller—Day 3 of the task—meant for a ...

A portion of this sum would go to the development of domestically built stealth fighter planes to replace a fleet of aging F-2s. The F-2 was first deployed in Japan in 2000. It is unique among the ...

Four F-2 fighter jets based at Tsuiki Air Base in Fukuoka Prefecture landed at Oita Airport about 70 kilometers away on Nov. 13 under a simulation that the Tsuiki base had come under enemy attack ...