On March 24, 1918, British ace Captain J. L. Trollope shot down six German aircraft in a single day during World War I, ...

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 ...

Ever since the Lilienthal brothers bird-like gliders of the 19th Century, the nation of Germany has contributed a great deal to aviation. From rocket fighters to pulse-jets and even airships over ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland's navy says a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea is almost certainly Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, which disappeared nearly 60 years ago. The Polish ...