But the German re-armament began again in the 1930s, attracting the attention of aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel. Heinkel ...

Luft Hansa originally sought an aircraft that could fly at 250 kph (155 mph) before changing their requirements to 320 kph (198 mph). The winning entry was offered by Ernst Heinkel, founder of the ...

However, also in common with its Heinkel counterpart, the Junkers bomber crews paid a terrible price in the skies over Britain; between July and October 1940, 303 of these planes were sent ...

During the war, he had a mid-air crash after he shot down a Heinkel bomber near the German border and the tail of his Hurricane was clipped by a French plane and he crash-landed. He continued to ...