The Heinkel He 219 was a twin-engine night fighter used by the Luftwaffe in the later stages of World War II. 1 History…
By Michelle Shocklee Albert Chaparro, US Army Air Corp, 1942 I'm currently in the middle of researching a new time-slip novel that will,…
The Tupolev airliner rolled to a stop in Moscow on August 19, 1955. Aboard was KGB agent Evgeny Brik, back home for a…
As France began to recover from World War II, its once-formidable aviation industry was revived just as the jet age was forcing a…
The concept of the general-purpose fighter—a long-range, heavily armed airplane capable of achieving air superiority while at the same time shouldering other tasks,…
By Kelly Bell By May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler had been dead for more than a week. Germany was in the act of…
We think of the idea of a wooden plane as somehow backward looking – stick and string WW1 types – but in fact…
Ludwig Meister (14 December 1919 – 26 November 2011) was a Luftwaffe night fighter ace and recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) during World…
The Chengdu J-20 marks the first entry of a multirole stealth fighter into China’s armed forces. According to the Department of Defense (DOD),…
Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Luft '46 entry
In late 1942, Focke-Wulf engineer Hans Multhopp
headed up a design team that started aerodynamic…
The History of German Aviation: Kurt Tank, Germany’s greatest aircraft designer during World War II.
Though best known as a designer of airplanes, particularly the lethal Focke-Wulf Fw-190, Tank never lost sight of his pilot roots. Along with…
The Soviet Air Force’s Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik, or “Storm Bird,” took a heavy toll in German armor on the Eastern Front. By Phil…