For many in the opening years of the Second World War, the vision of the menacing, gull-winged Stuka dive bomber, plunging vertically earthwards, its sirens wailing ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

In the summer of 1943, behind a guarded circus tent at Lockheed’s Burbank factory, a handpicked team led by Kelly Johnson raced against time to build a jet fighter the public was never meant to see.