On this day, December 1, 1932, a new German monoplane made its maiden flight, the Heinkel He 70. Nicknamed the Blitz (lightning), it was built as a new mailplane for the German carrier Deutsche ...
The two most famous of the bunch were the Heinkel He 111 and the Junkers 88. This raises an interesting question: Which of these two warbirds can truly lay claim to the title of the WWII-era ...