BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...

“He’s on your tail.” The third and final Focke-Wulf had maneuvered behind the fighter pilot. Pulling all sorts of “tricks” ...

Archer Jr. and Harry Stewart stood out for bringing down three German aircraft in a single mission. Of those, Stewart went on to take part in the United States Air Force's first "Top Gun" competition ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

the Luftwaffe pilots of the P.13a/P.13b would’ve been tasked with ramming Allied bombers as opposed to warships, and weren’t actually expected to kill themselves during their ramming missions ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the ...

He said he saw the Luftwaffe pilot, perhaps less experienced at the controls, go into a high-speed stall and crash in a fiery explosion. (Handleman said other accounts he heard have the German ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr. was 100 years old. The Associated Press reported that the Tuskegee Airmen National ...