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

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.

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 ...

TASS/. More than 300 fighter planes from the Red Army's Navy and Air Defense Forces, along with reinforced ground-based air defenses, created an "iron dome" for the Allied delegations during the ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Curator Leona Roberts told Penguin News: “Those aircraft were one FE2d and two FE Bristol Fighters. “The photograph is of the FE2d aircraft named Falkland. The Royal Aircraft Factory FE2 was a ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed a new technology that takes inspiration from WWI fighter aircraft machine gun and propeller synchronization ...

Iconic fighters like the Fokker Dr.I ... starkly contrasting WWII-era planes' more streamlined and concealed designs. Unlike their WWII counterparts, World War I aircraft in Aces Of Thunder ...

Then there was its first operational fighter with a turbojet engine ... squadron of Spitfires – one of the most innovative planes of WWII – the Butcher Bird proved itself to be superior ...