Letters to the editor of the Daily Pilot, this week from writers in Irvine, Huntington Beach, Balboa Island and Newport Beach ...

An international team prepares for a daring 2025 mission to recover "P-38 Echo," a WWII-era Lockheed Lightning buried beneath ...

In the brutal air battles of World War II, skill wasn’t always enough to keep a pilot alive. Some men survived against impossible odds - one of them was Jack Ilfrey, a P-38 Lightning ace who defied ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or JASDF, has made small steps to begin turning around what experts have described as an ...