Clifton Aerodrome was opened as a Civil Airport in 1936, but although an air taxi service was operated, there were no scheduled flights. However, in 1937 it was mentioned in several newspapers for the ...

In the summer of 1940, the fate of Britain hung in the balance. The Luftwaffe launched relentless air raids, but the RAF stood firm. This video recreates a critical moment in the Battle of Britain, as ...

Indeed, the Do 17 shared status with the Heinkel He 111 as the Luftwaffe’s main bomber in the early stages of WWII. However, the plane’s weaknesses were exposed during the Battle of Britain ...

Herman Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe and Adolf Hitler’s overall second-in-command of the Third Reich, was quite miffed that the battle wasn’t going in Germany’s favor and accordingly ...

The plane had a top airspeed of 440 km/h. After 1943, the Luftwaffe’s loss of air superiority and the 111’s defensive inadequacies caused the bomber to be consigned to transport duties for the ...

Walking through New Orleans’s National WW II Museum, you could be forgiven for thinking the Axis powers were defeated ...

“Then later when WWII was about to start ... spiraling towards earth, he recalled. The Luftwaffe pilot followed suit but had overcontrolled and quickly spun out, crashing to the ground.

In broad strokes, the aircraft is a single-engine, multirole fighter used by the Soviet Union and its allies during WWII and into the ... air superiority from the Luftwaffe’s Focke-Wulf Fw ...

The nearby port of Falmouth, as well as Chain Home radar stations like RAF Dry Tree, were particular targets of interest to the Luftwaffe and ... to the airfield in May 1943 after facing heavy ...

In 1943, those units were merged into a group ... As the tide of war shifted against Nazi Germany and its once-feared Luftwaffe in 1944, Arnold and other leaders felt the crisis requiring female ...