Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

The theaters of World War II were swarming with notable aircraft ... bombers to fighters, and they were always exploring new engineering techniques. These four stand out as the best the Third ...

Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

This was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, with the BAE Systems info ... historian Guy Davey writes in an article for Plane Historia: 6,176 Halifaxes were produced, but sadly ...

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 ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane ... fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2 ...

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

Manufactured from 1938 to 1944, 13,738 Curtis P40-Warhawk fighter planes were produced. Although technological progress in aviation outpaced the Warhawk by the end of WWII, it held the distinction ...

CHIKUZEN, Fukuoka Prefecture--A full-size replica of the rarest of Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the Shinden interceptor, has gone on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum here.