The spirals on the noses of German fighter planes in World War II weren't a fashion statement. They had some very practical reasons for being there.

From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around the world. Here is how it evolved.

The colors for German Luftwaffe planes were established established by the Ministry of Aviation, or Reichsluftfahrtministerium, in 1933. The paints were initially produced by several German ...

BUD ANDERSON 1922 - 2024 Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Jr, a military pilot whose aerial derring-do spanned from World War II, when he personally shot down 16 German planes in dogfights over ...

The German Luftwaffe will operate from a base in the UK under a major defence pact to be signed this week. The new UK-Germany Trinity House Agreement will see German submarine-hunting planes fly ...

By the end of the battle the better organised RAF had defeated the Luftwaffe and downed 1,887 German planes. The RAF lost 1,023 planes. The tide of the war started to turn.

A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil.

Leaders of the German Luftwaffe, who viewed a later test flight, were not impressed, despite the technical breakthrough the He 178 represented. The Failure of the World's First Jet Aircraft ...

Devotees of the politically correct, beware! Joltin’ Josie, the scantily clad “Pacific Pioneer,” is back from the dead. Armed with a Bowie knife and a muzzle-loading rifle, this l… ...

Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer A German WW2 plane flown by the world's deadliest pilot shows all 121 enemy kills stencilled onto the bullet-ridden tail-wing - and could be worth up to £20,000.