Aircraft encyclopedia: Military

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2006-0002 (CC BY SA), vía commons
Fighter · 1935
Messerschmitt Bf 109
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…
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Fighter · 1939
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
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…
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Nick / from United Kingdom (CC BY), vía commons
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Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany (CC BY), vía commons
Fighter
Messerschmitt Me 262
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…
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