The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 was a technological marvel, a jet fighter so advanced it could outrun any Allied plane. Yet, its path to the skies was sabotaged not by enemy bombs, but by internal chaos, ...