The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

World War I broke out 11 years after the inaugural flight of the Wright Flyer in 1903. Like most new technologies, humanity soon set about fitting the aircraft to a role in warfare.

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 ...

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.

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 long-legged ...

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.

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 occupied Europe, to ...

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.