BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

bombs. By World War II, bombers became some of the most important aircraft of the conflict, and it was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

There are just two airworthy Boeing B-29s left in the world, and this summer they will both be at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, ...

The Horten brothers began World War II on the front lines ... approved the Horten brothers’ proposal for a light bomber under the 3 x 1,000 concept and commissioned three HV units, though they ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

When John Dodds found a World War II bomber jacket in a Washington, D.C., thrift store, his interest was piqued. The Air Force lawyer noticed that the jacket still had its original owner’s name ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last two remaining members of the 355 original Tuskegee Airmen during World ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...