It’s time to overhaul the engine in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3. In this image, the Daimler-Benz DB 601 Aa has been stripped down in preparation for its removal from the airframe. There is a tall ...

There’s a very good reason why three-wheelers never picked up traction, just like there’s a very good reason why microcars never survived their ‘60s-’70s peak. Still, if you’re feeling nostalgic for ...

Development on the Jumo 004 began in 1939 under the direction of Anselm Franz, whose experience with turbocompressors built on the pioneering turbojet work of Hans von Ohain. The model 004A flew for ...

WHEN Will Messerschmitt was forced to stop making Nazi planes at the end of World War II he turned to making quirky little three-wheeled cars. In the wake of the war there was a ban placed on Germans ...

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career as ...