Rare footage of a World War Two German ME-262 prototype aircraft conduct a take-off. The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work ...

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 ...

In the final days of World War II, Japan’s final attempt at keeping pace with the aeronautical power of the Allies was in the form of the Nakajima Kikka’s solitary and first flight on August 7, 1945.