Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first time. Designed by legendary German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank ...

In its day, pilots used to call the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 the Würger (Butcher Bird) because it was so adept at shooting down Allied aircraft. But when this 1944 example was pulled from the woods in ...

The Hellcat is powered by a monstrous 2,000hp (2,250hp WEP) Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp – an 18 cylinder air-cooled radial engine featuring a 2-stage, 2-speed Supercharger and water ...

Luftwaffe Major Heinz Baer in his FW-190 saw the bomber heading away and fired a burst into the ship, mortally wounding Spaven. The rest of the crew bailed out, and the bomber went down. All the crew ...