Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first type in French service to face the mighty Luftwaffe but the domestically ...

Three years after West Germany founded its air force (the Luftwaffe), its first squadron of fighter aircraft was created. The ...

Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over 850 times and scoring 352 ...

While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II ... What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before ...

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 ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed Cottrell, P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, age 103. We use cookies to help you ...

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 ...

The heavy attacks brought Luftwaffe fighter planes out in force and that was exactly what the Allies, and particularly the day-fighting U.S. Strategic Command, wanted to see. The air battles were ...

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

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