In this video we look at Luftwaffe fighter ace and famed Messerschmitt Me-262 pilot Franz Schall. He was one of the top scoring jet pilots in World War II and was incredibly deadly against four engine ...

Preface signed Michael S. Rice. "ME-262 A-1 pilot's handbook, by F.D. Van Wart, 1946": p.1-30.

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 ...

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 ...