Blohm & Voss BV 138 – The Sea Dragon
During the course of the Second World War, most of the combatant nations employed flying boats or seaplanes in a
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Focke-Wulf Ta 152 – FW 190 But Better?
On a warm, clear, summer’s day in August 1942, a dozen B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 97th Bomb Group
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Northrop XP-79 – The Flying Battering Ram
The Northrop XP-79 ‘Flying Ram’ was a bizarre attempt to make an aeroplane that disabled enemy craft by colliding into
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Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane – First Ever Cruise Missile
A month before the last flight of the Hewitt-Sperry automatic aeroplane its creator, the brilliant Elmer Sperry, would boldly and
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Me 264 Amerika Bomber – The Transatlanic Warbird
On December 11th 1941, Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. This was a very strange move on the
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Hawker Tempest – Whipping Up a Storm
At the beginning of the Second World War the Hawker Typhoon, the brainchild of aviation maverick Sydney Camm, dominated the
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Me 210 – Worst German Warplane of World War II?
The Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter first entered service with the Luftwaffe in 1937 with the Me 210 first taking
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Dornier Do X – Bigger Isn’t Always Better…
If you wanted to travel across the Atlantic in the 1920s, your choices were rather limited which inspired the creation
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Payen Pa 49 – The Petite Plane with a Galactic Legacy
The Payen Pa 49 was a tiny experimental aircraft and the brainchild of aviation extraordinaire Roland Payen, who hoped it
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McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo – Piston and Jet Power?
The McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo was a proposed long-range strike fighter and bomber escort that was entered into the Penetration Fighter
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