The RAF carried out a special flypast for of one their World War Two veterans, buzzing the skies over his bungalow to ...

And despite being called "one of the finest aircraft" one famous British test ... the summer of 1944 when the Allies broke through the German front in Poland. By the end of 1944 though, Allied ...

The practice continues to influence the design of modern aircraft, some of which ... two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

an advanced jet-powered fighter-bomber built by Nazi Germany in the final stages of World War II. Though it never saw action, it is believed to have potentially inspired the first documented UFO ...

and was dissolved by court order at the end of World War II. In the final months of 1940, the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Ministry of Aviation) issued a request for a high-speed reconnaissance ...

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 ...

One evening we were surprised to hear the air raid warning and anti-aircraft guns again and my ... As we left the house we heard the engine of a German bomber (even children could recognize ...

Today's Object of the Week is the remains of a Second World War propeller, possibly from one of the last German aircraft to crash on British soil. Ellen Morris reports. The remains of a Junkers ...