What could a descendant of a German aviator, a mysterious forest in Russia, and an associate of Bill Gates have in common?
What could a descendant of a German aviator, a mysterious forest in Russia, and an associate of Bill Gates have in common?
The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...
Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...
Italy was thought to be the first country to fly a jet-powered plane (although they were second after Germany's He 178), ...
One of the most sinister aircraft of World War II, the Junkers Ju 87 ... proved its worth as the most effective dive bomber in the German fleet and participated in events like the Battle of ...
Britain stepped up the production of fighter planes, building them faster ... to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle ...
The medals and logbooks of a fearless First World War fighter ace who clocked up 29 ... Royal Flying Corps, terrorised German aircraft during dogfights in the summer of 1918.
divers discovered the remains of a WWII plane and were able to reconstruct its mission. Screengrab from the Soprintendenza Del Mare's Facebook post On March 2, 1943, a German plane took off from ...