Discover how the Luftwaffe’s limited fighter designs and lack of innovation contributed to their inability to secure air ...

When a Messerschmitt Me 262 launched an attack on a British Havilland Mosquito over Munich during World War II, it made history as the first fighter jet to engage in combat. The technological ...

When a Messerschmitt Me 262 launched an attack on a British Havilland Mosquito over Munich during World War II, it made history as the first fighter jet to engage in combat. The technological ...

Since entering service in 1974, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle has been credited with 104 air-to-air victories without a ...

Nazi Germany deserves credit for debuting jet technology with the Messerschmitt Me 262. Late in the war (and late in the ...

Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 1, 1942, at Muroc Dry Lake, in the high desert north of Los Angeles, ...

The fighter jet might be the most iconic aircraft ... Nazi Germany deserves credit for debuting jet technology with the Messerschmitt Me 262. Late in the war (and late in the regime), the Nazis ...

Noteworthy items from the private collection include a de Havilland Mosquito (a plane that's primarily made of wood) and a Messerschmitt ME 262 (the world's first jet-powered fighter plane).

A tremendous number of firearms were obtained by American GIs in every theater of World War II, despite discouragement from U.S. Army command.

While it likely didn’t have the oft-discussed reduced radar cross-section, the De Havilland Mosquito is credited as “the ...

Three prototypes were built but production was abandoned to allow Messerschmitt ... on fighter production and the Junkers Ju 390 was selected in its place. Development continued as a maritime ...