Germany’s only attempt at building an aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, was ambitious—but doomed. Conceived as part of ...

But after Hitler saw the way other navies, notably the British Royal Navy, were using their aircraft carriers with such devastating lethality against German forces at sea, in 1942, Hitler ...

In the final years of WWII, Nazi engineers proposed one of their boldest concepts yet—a massive flying aircraft carrier ... deliver air superiority far from German soil. Though it never flew ...

Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy ...

tail-less aircraft known as a flying wing. The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s ...