German aviation is a tale of audacious curiosity and readiness to take chances. Since the early gliding experiments of Otto ...

The Focke-Wulf Triebflügel was one of the strangest interceptor concepts of World War II, built around a tail sitting design ...

In the 19th Century, one Otto Lilienthal studied birds, built a hill to fly his gliders from and did much to further the study of flight. Since then, Germany has remained a big name in the development ...

The Ho 229’s stealth reputation partly comes from later claims that Reimar Horten intended to mix charcoal dust into the ...

Say “Witam (Hello)” to the warbirds flown by the Polish Air Force pilots in their heroic losing effort. The joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 was important for several reasons. It ...

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was not the best or the worst of the combat aircraft to see service during the Second World War. It had been one of the German Luftwaffe’s great hopes at the start of the war, ...

You tend to hear a number of myths and legends about German military aircraft from World War II. For one, you'll hear that German aircraft technology was leaps and bounds better than Allied tech. You ...