The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany's secret project ...

Ernst Heinkel was a designer at the German aircraft company Hansa-Brandenburg during WWI. After the Treaty of Versailles relaxed aviation restrictions in 1922, he started his own company, Heinkel ...

British model kit company Airfix has announced a 40th-anniversary edition of its Heinkel He111 H-6 bomber model, complete with Motorhead decals and custom box to mark the 40th anniversary of the ...

Bridgnorth, and the RAF, buried the Luftwaffe dead with full military honours, despite being a town which had tasted the ...

Key point: Germany’s desperation to win the war resulted in some questionable decisions. By the summer of 1944, the German Luftwaffe had a lot of problems. Huge Allied four-engine strategic bombers ...

Click to open image viewer. The German jet fighter that is now synonymous with the project that inspired it, the Volksjäger or People's Fighter program, first flew on December 6, 1944. The Reich Air ...

On this day in history, 1939, German pilot Hans Dieterle set a world record speed when he reached 746,606 km/h (463.919 mph) in a Heinkel He 100 fighter aircraft. Dieterle set the record near the town ...