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 ...

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

In July 1942 a German Messerschmitt took off from Leipheim airfield in Bavaria…but it was no ordinary aircraft… It was an Me 262 - the world’s first operational jet fighter. Powered by two Junker Jumo ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Like its big brother the Me-262, the Kikka was too little, too late. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in World War II. In truth, ...

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