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Hindsight is a glorious thing. From the safe distance of several decades it is blindingly obvious that many of the aircraft thrown into the maelstrom of combat during the Second World War were wo…

There was several attempts to produce aircraft where half of the horsepower would've been pulling the aircraft, and other half was supposed to push it....

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Messerschmitt Me 264 – “Amerika” Bomber, 1942 The Messerschmitt Me 264 was designed from the beginning as part of the “Amerika bomber” project. It’s goal was to be able to carry a small load to the United States but also to support U-boat operations far into the Atlantic. http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/messerschmitt-264-objective-able-strike-continental-usa-germany-1942/

Pretty Scary If You Think About It. Anyone can play the game of "what ifs" in retrospect, but sometimes it's just fun to speculate. For this piece, we've rummaged through a lot of paperwork and put some pieces together to allow for this storyline. The simple question we posed was, "what if Me 26

© Copyright Peter Crawford 2013DEUTSCH WUNDERWAFFEN Wunderwaffe is German for "wonder-weapon", and was a term assigned by the German propaganda ministry to a number of revolutionary "superweapons". Most of these weapons however remained feasible prototypes, or reached the combat theatre too late, and in too insignificant numbers to have a military effect. The V-weapons, which were developed earlier, and saw considerable deployment (especially against London and Antwerp), trace back to the…

Although the Heinkel He 111 was designed ostensibly as a civil airliner for Lufthansa, its military potential was of a far greater importance. The first

A collection of original Black and white images of Messerschmitt Bf 109's and Pilots Colourised. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the dawn of the jet age at the end of World War II in 1945.

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