Aviation history Part 7 (World War 2 - a new dimension of terror by the aircraft )

1933 in Germany, the Nazis seized power, and invested in the largest air defense style. 1939, the outbreak of war, ordered the German air force together for almost as fighter aircraft to all the Allied Powers. Combat aircraft like the Messerschmitt Me109, and bombers, like the Heinkel He111 and the Junkers Ju 88, documented the technical superiority of the Germans, but was quickly captured in the early years of the war by the British and Americans.

In war the aircraft was previously unknown dimension of terror. Bombers carried the war across the fronts in the interior. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the attack, and priceless objects were destroyed. A gigantic production machinery has been created, especially in the U.S., which mainly produces heavy bombers (such as the Boeing B17) aircraft and transport (for example, Douglas). In June 1944 came one day 16B17 Boeing factory in Seattle.

Propeller-/Kolbenmotorantrieb The plane arrived late in the war on flight speed and size of its technical limits. Examples of the final stage of development, the Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter planes, the British Spitfire and the American Mustang, the limits are reached at 700Kilometer per hour. The jet engine and high speed aerodynamics, which also includes the effects of the sound barrier before and during the war had developed, should herald a new era in the history of aviation, the jet age.