At first glance, it looks like a mistake—but the BV 141 was a real WWII reconnaissance aircraft with a cockpit offset from ...

Balloons may not seem like particularly threatening things, but mega-sized versions played a vital role in WW2. Here's what ...

The practice continues to influence the design of modern aircraft, some of which ... two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

The Japanese “Zero” fighter, for example, had a 12-to-1 kill ratio over enemy aircraft. Similarly, the German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 devastated the less capable Allied fighters in aerial combat.

How did radar play a crucial advantage for the Allied forces’ victory in WW2? AeroTime takes a look at how radar was deployed ...

Flying wings have proved to be a headache for aircraft designers stretching back almost to the time of the Wright Brothers. All of which makes the achievements of the German Horten brothers so ...

The paints were initially produced by several German companies, and later in German-occupied territory. Aircraft manufacturers ... so many of these legendary WW2 planes were screaming through ...

The wreckage of the aircraft and the pilot's remains were discovered earlier this month by a local schoolboy and his father walking through fields near their home. German national information ...