On October 24, 2003, British Airways flight BA002 touched down at London Heathrow for the last time. As it taxied in, the crew made an announcement: this was Concorde’s final commercial flight. The passengers — who had each paid around £8,000 for a seat — stood...
The standard defensive manoeuvre for an SR-71 Blackbird when it detected a surface-to-air missile launch was simple: accelerate. At Mach 3.3 and 85,000 feet, acceleration was sufficient. No SR-71 was ever shot down. In over 3,500 operational missions, spanning 24...
On the evening of October 12, 1947, test pilot Chuck Yeager went horse riding in the Mojave Desert and fell off, breaking two ribs. Two days later, in severe pain and with his ribs tightly taped, he crawled into the cockpit of a Bell X-1 rocket plane, used a sawed-off...
At dawn on August 27, 1939 — four days before Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began — test pilot Erich Warsitz climbed into a small, unremarkable-looking aircraft at the Heinkel airfield in Rostock-Marienehe and opened a throttle connected to an engine...
Kurze FaktenNationalitätDeutsch 🇩🇪Luftsiege275 (3. aller Zeiten)Flugzeuge geflogenBf 109GKriegeZweiter Weltkrieg (Ostfront)Geboren / gestorben10. März 1918 – 4. Oktober 2009 (Alter 91)EinheitJG 52 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J16509, Günther Rall – über Wikimedia Commons Es gibt ein Detail In...
At 7:25 PM on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg — 804 feet long, the largest aircraft ever built — caught fire while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. In 34 seconds, the largest flying object in history was a wreck on the...
Kurze FaktenNationalitätDeutsch 🇩🇪Luftsiege301 (2. aller Zeiten)Flugzeuge geflogenBf 109G, Fw 190KriegeZweiter Weltkrieg (Ostfront)Geboren / gestorben20. März 1919 – 8. Januar 1983 (Alter 63)EinheitJG 52 5-Luftwaffe-Pilot-Major-Gerhard-Barkhorn-01 – via Wikimedia Commons Er ist der...
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island — a two-mile-long coral strip in the central Pacific, 2,556 miles away. They were on the longest and most dangerous leg of an around-the-world flight....
Quick FactsNationalityGerman 🇩🇪Aerial Victories352 (all-time record — never broken)Aircraft FlownBf 109G/KWarsWorld War II (Eastern Front)Born / Died19 Apr 1922 – 20 Sep 1993 (age 71)UnitJG 52 Erich Hartmann voor zijn Bf 109 (G-6) — via Wikimedia Commons Two hundred...
Recent Comments