The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was more than just a German fighter—it was the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s aerial supremacy during World War II. With nearly 1,000 combined kills from the top three German ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

Developer Kite Games and publisher Kalypso Media announce Sudden Strike 5. 25 years on from the first entry and eight since the launch of Sudden Strike 4, a new installment in the iconic wartime ...

Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air examines how the revolution in warfare that took place during the war redefined the promise and peril of military aviation, and explores the dramatic changes to ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a high-altitude interceptor known as the Blohm & Voss BV 155. An agreement on ...

WHEN Will Messerschmitt was forced to stop making Nazi planes at the end of World War II he turned to making quirky little three-wheeled cars. In the wake of the war there was a ban placed on Germans ...

Tested in the Spanish Civil War, the Messerschmitt Bf-109 is by far the most famous German fighter of World War II. The new life of a Spanish HA-1112 Buchón fighter converted into a German Bf-109G Ye ...

World War II saw a great deal of innovation in the area of fighter aircraft design and construction, as it was the conflict that gave birth to the jet fighter. More than that, multiple nations fielded ...

Omar is an aviation enthusiast with a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. This trainee pilot has numerous years of technical and research experience in low-speed aerodynamics, aircraft design, and flight ...

The German Bf 109 Became Infamous During the Battle of Britain – The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is the most famous German aircraft of the Second World War. In many ways, the aircraft mirrored Nazi Germany’s ...