Plane of the Week: Messerschmitt Me 262

The World's First Operational Jet Fighter   While the design for the Messerschmitt Me 262 began pre-World War II, it didn't reach operational status with the Luftwaffe until mid-1944. Even then, only small numbers of Me 262s actually appeared in combat. Design and Development Several years before the onset of WWII, Germans saw the potential for [...]

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Plane of the Week: Nazi Germany’s BV 141

The BV 141: one mean, lean, lopsided machine. Let’s just face the facts: this thing is flat-out strange. Likely one of the only asymmetric aircraft in all of human history, what’s truly strange about the BV 141 is that it actually flew – and it flew pretty well! The BV 141 was actually intended to [...]

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