On this day in aviation history, December 21, 1936, the Junkers Ju 88 made its first flight. This aircraft would go on to ...

After recovering small parts of the aircraft earlier in the week, experts initially thought the aircraft was a Stuka, a single engine ... wreckage is that of the Ju 88. What they initially thought ...

The twin-engine Ju 88 made its maiden flight on December 21, 1936, and officially became operational in 1939. The Ju 88 packed a payload of up to 1,400 kgs (3,100 lbs) of ordnance internally in ...

The Ju-88 Stuka, for instance, had virtually no capacity for fighting – but it was still one of the most feared aircraft of the Second World War. Others, such as the B-52, are more versatile.

BERLIN – It looked like a Stuka, partly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but researchers now say the wreck German military divers have been recovering for the past week is a ...

The Junkers JU-87, better known by its nickname "Stuka," was one of World War II's most iconic combat aircraft. Its distinctive inverted "gull" wings and fixed undercarriage make it unmistakable ...

Remains of the Junkers Ju 88 aircraft found in Sicily. Credit: Elio Nicosia / Soprintendenza del Mare In a recent discovery that adds yet another piece to the complex mosaic of World War II in the ...

Then the Hurricanes spotted the stricken bomber. Pilot Officer Tony Rippon and Pilot Officer Joe Hall attacked and claimed the Ju 88 was shot down. The remaining crewmen hastily abandoned their ...

In 1935, a Stuka prototype, designed by Hugo Junkers, with a Rolls Royce engine took off on its first test flight. What made the Ju-87 different was the dive brakes, invented by Junkers ...