Wings of the Luftwaffe - Fighter Attack
38Wings was an hour-long televised aviation history documentary series which aired on the Discovery Channel family of networks. It was produced by Phil Osborn.
The original "Wings" series initially aired Wednesdays and Saturdays on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. from 9-10 p.m. Eastern in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"Wings of the Luftwaffe" was a separately-branded series that focused on Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II.
Episodes
"The Blitz" - Arado Ar 234
"The Butcher Bird" - Focke-Wulf Fw 190
"The Destroyer" - Messerschmitt Me 110
"Gigant" - Messerschmitt Me 321/323
"Iron Annie" - Junkers Ju 52
"The Jet" - Messerschmitt Me 262
"The Komet" - Messerschmitt Me 163
"The Legend" - Messerschmitt Me 109
"The Schnell Bomber" - Junkers Ju 88
"Sea Wings" - German Seaplanes
"The Secret Bomber" - Heinkel He 111
"The Stuka" - Junkers Ju 87
"V for Vengeance" - V-1 flying bomb
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft,[1] as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.
Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are designed as dual-purpose fighter-bombers; often aircraft that do not fulfill the standard definition are called fighters. This may be for political or national security reasons, for advertising purposes, or other reasons.
A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield. Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been considered essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air supremacy hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.
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