In the early years of the air war over Europe, German Fw 190 fighters dominated the skies above the English Channel. Fast, heavily armed, and flown by experienced pilots, they could strike targets ...
During the Battle of Britain in 1940, the Royal Air Force faced the full strength of the German Luftwaffe. Several aircraft ...
Vanity’s darker cousin is envy. It wasn’t only the formal thresholds that drove pilots to extremes. When a former squadron-mate was singled out for public praise – his name trumpeted in the daily ...
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Former Airbus and EADS chief Tom Enders has publicly warned Germany against launching a national fighter program, arguing that Berlin would spend hundreds of billions on a prestige project that would ...
Vol. 1, section 1. Birth of the Luftwaffe fighter force -- volume 1, section 2. The Spanish Civil War -- volume 1, section 3. Blitzkrieg and sitzkrieg : Poland and France, 1939-1940 -- volume 1, ...