Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first ...

Two daring German pilots didn’t just fly they rewrote the rules of air combat and changed the course of WWII forever.

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The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the aerial warfare of World War II. The era of sportsmanlike, ...

September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at ...

The 119th Fighter Squadron at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base has a new flagship: a jet that bears the tail insignia of the Jersey Jerk, the name of the planes that hero pilot Donald J.

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the ...

A National Air and Space Museum researcher solves a World War II mystery Richard Whittle Melitta von Stauffenberg was an engineer who insisted on flying her own tests of aircraft modifications she had ...