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The Horten Ho 229 V3 awaits restoration at the National Air and Space Museum

The Luftwaffe’s Flying Wing

The Horten Ho 229 is on the short list for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.
January 11, 2010 | By Rebecca Maksel

VERA, in her original glory, leads a group of Me 262s, captured by the U.S. Air Force, as they taxi for takeoff from the airfield at Lechfeld, Germany, in 1945.

Stormbird

November 2006 | By Douglas Gantenbein

By war’s end, the French pilots had scored 129 victories against the Luftwaffe.

The French-Russian Connection

With Russian Yaks, a small group of French pilots fought like hell to drive the Germans out of the Soviet Union.
September 2005 | By Carl Posey

Jugs in fearsome formation.

Cold Front

Meet the men who kept the Thunderbolts flying.
July 2005 | By Thomas D. Jones and Robert F. Dorr

The Maxim Gorky, an enormous eight-engine Tupolev ANT-20, struck awe in those who watched its propaganda flights over Red Square (below).

Despots Aloft

To the three most infamous dictators of the 20th century, the airplane was much more than a way to get from Stalag A to Gulag B.
May 2005 | By Von Hardesty

Yellow 10

Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
September 2003 | By Howard Stansfield

The frigid and oxygen-poor water of Norway

Restoration: Desperate Journey

A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 | By Douglas Hinton

In the Museum: The Mystery of the MiG

January 2001 | By Z. Byron Wolf


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