The creation of the Fw 58, Focke-Wulf’s first aircraft to feature a retractable undercarriage, was overseen at the company’s Bremen factory by 33-year-old Kurt Tank, who had been appointed Chief of De

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The forced landing of a shot-up Junkers Ju 88A bomber of Kampfgeschwader (KG) 77 on the north Kent coast in late September 1940, during one of the bloodiest days of the Battle of Britain, gave rise to

The F-16 Fighting Falcon is an iconic jet, and after decades of service it’s still on the front line in Ukraine. We’ve gone into the cockpit to discover why this legend still takes charge of the skies today

We finish this issue enjoying an east of England airshow in the mid-Eighties, where there’s just as much action off the ground as there is on it

On 11 September 1940, during the late afternoon, between 20 and 30 Messerschmitt Bf 110C/Ds from I. Gruppe of Zerstörergeschwader (ZG) 26 were assigned to fly as part of the fighter cover protecting a