The Messerschmitt Me 262 was a technological leap, powered by the first operational turbojet engines and capable of speeds far beyond its contemporaries. In this episode, we explore its pioneering ...

In July 1942 a German Messerschmitt took off from Leipheim airfield in Bavaria…but it was no ordinary aircraft… It was an Me 262 - the world’s first operational jet fighter. Powered by two Junker Jumo ...

National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft, NASM.XXXX.1183.A, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to ...

The Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, was developed under strict secrecy during the Second World War.

In the Vietnam War US Phantoms claimed to have destroyed around 147 aircraft (of a total of 195 North Vietnamese Air Force ...

From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and ...

Enemy searchlights raked the sky and shells exploded around us: the cockpit was filled with blinding light, so I could see ...

It is often misattributed to Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci, though regardless of its origin it perfectly captures mankind’s enduring fascination with reaching for the heavens, and our pride ...

The city of Seattle in Washington has reached a $29 million settlement (nearly ₹262 crore) with the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old student from India who was run over and killed by a ...

The city of Seattle has reached a $29 million (roughly ₹262 crore) settlement with the family of a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck by a speeding police officer as she crossed a ...

VIJAYAWADA: Nearly three years after 23-year-old Telugu student Jaahnavi Kandula was killed after she was hit by a police car in Seattle and an officer was caught on camera laughing about her death, ...