tail-less aircraft known as a flying wing. The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s ...

The spirals on the noses of German fighter planes in World War II weren't a fashion statement. They had some very practical ...

The Horten Ho-229 was the world's first jet-powered flying wing ... of this advanced German aircraft that never saw combat. It was developed in the late stages of the WW2 when Germany desperately ...

The U.S. Army Air Forces had captured the flying wing prototype—along with hundreds of other German aircraft—near the end of World War II. In April 1945, George Patton’s Third Army found ...

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...