Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The standard British Quick Reaction Alert intercept, in the Cold War era, went something like this. NATO radar would call out an unidentified contact entering the United Kingdom Air Defence Region. Two RAF Phantom FGR.2s, held at ten minutes’ readiness around...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine knows it is...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Louis Blériot was flying on a badly burned foot. His monoplane — a fragile structure of spruce, ash, and rubberised canvas — had a 25-horsepower engine that overheated on long runs. He had no compass. No radio. No life jacket. As he climbed to 250 feet over the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1924, flying around the world meant crossing the Pacific Ocean in open biplanes, with engines that had to be rebuilt every few thousand miles, relying on supply ships pre-positioned across the widest ocean on Earth by a US Navy that had deployed its vessels months...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
They were bicycle mechanics. No formal engineering degrees, no government funding, no team of PhDs. Just Wilbur and Orville Wright, a shed in Dayton, Ohio, and an obsession that bordered on madness. By the time they arrived at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The US Army Air Forces didn’t want them. The military establishment was convinced, and had “proved” through pseudo-scientific studies, that Black men lacked the intelligence, the nerve, and the coordination to fly combat aircraft. When political...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
34 Tage lang feierten wir die größten Jagdflieger der Geschichte – von Adolphe Pégoud, dem Franzosen, der den Luftkampf erfand, bis zu MM Alam, dem pakistanischen Fliegerass, der in weniger als einer Minute fünf Flugzeuge abschoss. Falls Sie einen dieser Beiträge verpasst haben, können Sie ihn hier nachlesen….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 18 April 1942, four months after Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet — something that had never been done before and would never be attempted again — and flew 1,000 miles to bomb Tokyo. The military damage they...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Quick FactsNationalityPakistani 🇵🇰Aerial Victories9 (5 in under 60 seconds — world record sortie)Aircraft FlownF-86 SabreWars1965 Indo-Pakistani WarBorn / Died6 Jul 1935 – 18 Mar 2013 (age 77)UnitNo. 11 Squadron PAF “Arrows” Mohammad Mahmood Alam 1965 —...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
In 1936, American Airlines president C.R. Smith made an audacious request to Donald Douglas: build an airliner that could carry passengers across America in 16 hours and make money doing it. The result was the Douglas DC-3 — an aircraft so well-designed that it...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Quick FactsNationalityIsraeli 🇮🇱Aerial Victories17 (highest Western jet ace)Aircraft FlownF-4 Phantom II, Mirage IIIWarsSix-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur WarBorn29 Oct 1938Unit101 Squadron “First Fighter Squadron” Giora Epstein — via Wikimedia...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
He failed five times. Each time, he climbed into a capsule smaller than a garden shed, was lifted to 35,000 feet by a balloon the size of a 14-storey building, and tried to navigate the unpredictable jet streams around the entire planet. Each time, weather, equipment...
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