Me 262 was the first mass-produced jet fighter but faced issues due to unreliable engines and supply shortages. Despite being a terror weapon, Hitler's insistence on ...

The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...

The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...

Am 18. Juli 1943 hebt der erste Düsenjäger der Welt zu seinem Jungfernflug ab. Die Messerschmitt Me 262 revolutioniert die Luftfahrttechnik und läutet den Beginn des Düsenzeitalters ein.

WILLY MESSERSCHMITT hebt nicht ohne Stolz hervor, daß er »niemals in einem anderen Unternehmen Angestellter war«. Mit Selbstbewußtsein besteht der 65jährige Flugzeugkonstrukteur, gegen die ...

Bell’s P-59 Aircomet was America’s first attempt at building a jet fighter. However, compared to its British and German contemporaries—the Gloster Meteor and the Messerschmitt Me 262—the P ...