The Focke-Wulf Triebflugel was one of Nazi Germany’s strangest late-war interceptor ideas, a tail-sitting aircraft that would ...

As Germany’s airfields were destroyed and Allied air power tightened its grip, Nazi planners explored a wild solution: giant ...

As the Iron Curtain of the Cold War hung over Europe in 1947, the ghostly silhouette of a formidable Nazi ship hovered on the horizon of the Baltic Sea, a mirage of the war that had ended two years ...

In the 19th Century, one Otto Lilienthal studied birds, built a hill to fly his gliders from and did much to further the study of flight. Since then, Germany has remained a big name in the development ...

You tend to hear a number of myths and legends about German military aircraft from World War II. For one, you'll hear that German aircraft technology was leaps and bounds better than Allied tech. You ...

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet. What You Need to Know: The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This was an inglorious fate for a ship launched with fanfare in 1938 and hailed as the pride of the Nazi ...