In the final days of World War II, Japan’s final attempt at keeping pace with the aeronautical power of the Allies was in the form of the Nakajima Kikka’s solitary and first flight on August 7, 1945.

This article, originally titled "On the Road," is from the Fall 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly, the National Air and ...

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career as ...

In 1944, the skies over Europe changed forever. The German Me-262, the world’s first combat jet, left Allied pilots in shock as it soared past them at unprecedented speeds. But one pilot stood above ...

Few machines capture the imagination like the sleek silhouette of a German warplane carving through the sky. Whether you ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - A classic plane will make its AirVenture debut next week: the German ME 262, the first jet fighter plane in the world. It hit the skies late in World War II, too late to reverse ...

A Messerschmitt Me 262 A/B-1c made its first appearance since the end of World War II in German skies at May's Berlin Air Show. The replica, which is owned by the Messerschmitt Foundation, cost ...

The Me-262 is a jet that needs no introduction. Perhaps no German WWII fighter on this side of the Bf-109 and possibly the Fokke Wulf Fw-190 is as recognizable as the Me-262 jet. But for how ...

World’s first fighter plane: In a world which is witnessing air strikes around the world, do you know who developed the world’s first fighter plane and how powerful it was. As per media reports, Nazi ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Germany was not alone in its development of combat jets in World War II. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in World War II. In truth ...

Pilots nicknamed early-model P-47 Thunderbolts the “Razorback,” a reference to the chunky fighter plane’s angular canopy. However, the name was more generally appropriate—like a wild boar, the hulking ...