On this day in aviation history, 78 years ago (January 8, 1948), the Lavochkin La-15 took flight for the first time. Known by many names, the La-15 was an early Soviet fighter jet that helped give ...
The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...