Fast forward to the 20 th century, when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to look like a shark with a gaping mouth.

The Flying Tigers were the first American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China’s Air Force under the command of US General Claire Chennault, the military aviation advisor to Generalissimo Chiang ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one thinks of Imperial Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the legendary ...