The Junkers F 13 was the world's first all-metal passenger transport aircraft: a cantilever low-wing monoplane skinned in corrugated duralumin, with an enclosed, heated cabin for four passengers and an open crew position for two. The…
The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest and most powerful flying boat in the world when the German firm Dornier completed it in 1929, with twelve engines and room for 66 passengers on long routes. Only three were built: commercial…
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German single-seat monoplane fighter laid out in the mid-1930s by the team of Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, the company whose initials gave the aircraft its «Bf» prefix. It…
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger — "shrike", the bird that impales its prey — was the Luftwaffe's second great single-seat fighter and, in the judgement of many who flew it, the finest German combat aircraft of the Second World War. It was…
The Dornier 328 is a twin-turboprop regional airliner conceived by Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, for a very specific niche: around thirty seats, three-abreast, and performance close enough to a jet that the…
The Messerschmitt Me 262 — nicknamed Schwalbe ("swallow") in its fighter versions and Sturmvogel ("storm bird") in its fighter-bomber versions — was the world's first operational jet fighter and one of only two jet fighter types to see…