The priority became fighters, and that was reflected in training, aircraft development, factory output, and allocated resources. Irrespective of how important it was, for the Luftwaffe ...

Designed in 1939, the Lockheed L-133 was decades ahead of its time—a futuristic jet fighter that could’ve made the U.S. the ...

Footage has surfaced showing a prototype of China's enigmatic fighter jet, unofficially known as the Chengdu J-36, swooping ...

German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. Led by Hermann Goering, it became the largest and most powerful in Europe by the start of World War ...

A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

With almost 34,000 produced, the 109 was the foundation of the Luftwaffe’s fighter force. Darkness fell, and a mood of despair swept over the little band of airmen. They had inflicted little ...

After the original designer RJ Mitchell died in 1937, his successor Joe Smith developed the fighter to make it faster and more powerful. In 1940 Hitler sent 2,600 Luftwaffe fighters and bombers to ...

As the last surviving Battle of Britain fighter pilot 'Paddy' Hemingway dies at the age of 105, a glorious chapter closes in our island story ...

Enlist in the 357th Fighter Group and fly with real American aces such as Leonard "Kit" Carson and Bud Anderson in a classic fight for the sky against the deadly German Luftwaffe. Become a member ...

But he postponed it indefinitely when the R.A.F. — vastly outnumbered at the height of battle, with 749 fighter aircrafts compared with the Luftwaffe’s 2,550 — beat back German bombers and ...