Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

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

Tuskegee Airmen Detroit Chapter President Arthur Green, left, holds a P-51D model as Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., center, and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: There is never a free lunch in aircraft design. Carrying all that extra fuel meant a bigger, heavier aircraft. A bigger, heavier aircraft required ...

The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...

In broad strokes, the aircraft is a single-engine ... air superiority from the Luftwaffe’s Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and Messerschmitt Bf 109G fighters. Yak-9 production continued after the war until ...