In the forest wilderness near St. Petersburg in 1989, something remarkable was discovered: an abandoned German Focke-Wulf Fw ...

The unexpected discovery of a German Messerschmitt WWII fighter plane has been unearthed in excavation works being carried out at St Vincent de Paul elderly care home. The Malta Aviation Museum said ...

What made Hartmann such a great fighter pilot? Hartmann was in the early cohort of German pilots who got exhaustive training before they were sent to the Front. The Germans couldn’t sustain this ...

But it made him rather over-confident, and for the next few days he regarded the German Air Force rather ... His citation reads: 'An outstanding fighter pilot who has now destroyed 8 enemy ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...

Toward the end of World War 2, mission updates from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron took a mysterious turn. Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began ...

The unit, based at Manching, Bavaria, brings together personnel from the German Air Force ... systems fitted into a pod underneath the fighter jet. STAR will support the national development ...

That meant a German fighter attacking a formation was taking ... That was particularly important for the Messerschmitt 262 jet fighters that were developed late in the war and were most vulnerable ...