Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It looks like a shipping container. The kind you see stacked on cargo ships, sitting in port yards, or riding the back of a flatbed truck. Twenty feet long, corrugated steel, anonymous. You could drive past a thousand of them without a second glance. Open the doors,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 19 January 1995, a tiny piece of ice formed on the wrong piece of metal and destroyed one of the two aircraft at the heart of a pioneering German-American research programme. The piece of ice was perhaps half a centimetre across. The piece of metal it formed on was...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For four short years in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Navy operated the strangest aerial-refuelling tanker it ever owned. It was a four-engined turboprop flying boat. It landed on water. It nose-loaded vehicles. It could refuel four jet fighters simultaneously from...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 4 September 1949, the largest land-based aircraft ever built in Britain took off on its maiden flight from Filton, near Bristol. It had a wingspan of 70 metres — longer than a Boeing 747’s. Eight engines, buried in the wings in pairs, drove four sets of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In the 1960s, American spy satellites scanning the Caspian Sea brought back pictures of something that should not have existed: a 92-metre, jet-powered hybrid of ship and aircraft, skimming the water at 500 km/h. The CIA called it the Caspian Sea Monster. The Soviets...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is the most consequential helicopter design in American military history. Before the Cobra, every armed helicopter in the world was a transport airframe with weapons bolted onto it — a Huey with door guns, a Mi-4 with rocket pods, a Wessex with...
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