Click to open image viewer. The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. The first Ar 234 combat mission, a reconnaissance flight over ...
In 1944, Allied soldiers in Normandy looked up and saw something they could barely believe: a German jet aircraft screaming ...
Often overshadowed by more famous jets in World War II, the Ar 234 B-2—known as the Blitz, or Lightning—had caught the Allies by surprise when the nine soared through the skies on December 24, 1944.
An Ar-234 Blitz on ground. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Ar 234 was manufactured by Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH, a German company founded in 1925 as Arado Handelsgesellschaft and ...
The Arado Ar 234 was an aesthetically graceful and powerful German aircraft that became the world's first operational jet and reconnaissance bomber. Built by the Arado Flugzeugwerke company, this ...