Italy never developed a decent dive bomber but in 1939 Tullio Crali painted the best dive bombing picture Nose Dive on the City. Take a deep breath and shove the control column forward as you plummet into the hellscapeof the top ten dive bombers. You knew we were going to do this some day and here we are. One is even a jet. Dive bombers are rarely pretty, but what they lack in beauty they make up for with structural strength; some of these airframes are among the strongest ever built. They needed to be strong, as diving at a steep (sometimes ne ... More >>