From wartime combat reports and Luftwaffe documents to Allied intelligence files and the designer’s own opinion this episode ...

Even to this day, three quarters of a century after the end of the Second World War, the name Messerschmitt sends shivers down the spines of many. Aircraft wearing this name flew across the world’s ...

I was flying in my Spitfire M.k 5. It was in 1940. I was escorting bomber planes to bomb the Reichstag. A messerschmit ME-109, and a Focke-Wolf engaged me. The pilot of the ME-109, an ace german pilot ...

Few aircraft trigger arguments like Germany’s most famous fighter. This episode digs into the origins of the BF 109 designation tracing Messerschmitt’s rise the politics of German aviation industry ...