Long before the B-29 ruled the skies, Germany built a wooden giant—the Zeppelin-Staaken R.6. With an enclosed cockpit and a wingspan rivaling WWII bombers, it was WW1’s most ambitious aircraft and a ...

The Fokker DR-1 tri-plane was one of Germany's most famous fighter aircraft in WW1 When the world went to war in 1914 the Wright Brothers had only made the world's first powered flight little over ...