De Havilland Dh.98 Mosquito

The De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British military aircraft of great versatility during the Second World War.He was affectionately nicknamed "Mossie" by his crews...

The Focke-wulf Fw 190

This was an unpleasant surprise. The pilots of the RAF Spitfire had rejected the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and now, in the summer of 1941, had to face to defend...

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

"We have the world's most beautiful bomber."So published the New York Times on the morning of July 29, 1935 after the previous day, the Model 299, the ancestor of...

The Hawker Hurricane - The Supermarine Spitfire

The Hawker Hurricane was the first modern British fighter before the outbreak of World War II. Until 1941 the Hurricane was the most widely used combat aircraft from the Royal Air...

The Messerschmitt Bf 109

Pure fighter par excellence, shared with the Focke Wulf 190 the first line of the Luftwaffe throughout the second world war. Continuously updated and upgraded, it represented an...

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - North American P-51 Mustang

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, nicknamed "Jug" was an American fighter comes with an extremely powerful engine, 2,000 hp or more, and it was fast, especially at high...

Avro Lancaster - Handley Page Halifax - Short S.29 Stirling

The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber used by the RAF in 1942 and, together with the Handley Page Halifax, was the main strategic bomber of the RAF and other air...

Fighter Zero

From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the last desperate defense in the face of massive Allied bombings and suicide attacks against the enemy squadrons, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen...

Grumman F4f Wildcat - Grumman F6f Hellcat - F4u Corsair

The Grumman F4F Wildcat was a single-engine fighter embarked to media wing developed by the US Air Force Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the late thirties; produced...

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B 29 Superfortress will be remembered as the apparatus to have made use of the atomic weapon in war action; in fact, airplanes of this type that dropped the atomic...

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