Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story India’s most ambitious home-built fighter has drawn sharp criticism from an unlikely quarter: one of the officers who helped run the air force until weeks ago. Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, who stepped down as the Indian Air Force’s Vice...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Stellen Sie sich neben eine Antonov An-22, während sie ihre Triebwerke hochfährt, und Sie werden es nicht nur hören, Sie werden es spüren. Vier der stärksten je gebauten Turboprop-Triebwerke treiben acht riesige Propeller an, deren Blätter jeweils einen Kreis beschreiben, der höher ist als ein Haus, und der Klang ist...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Am 21. März 1999 brachten zwei erschöpfte Männer einen riesigen silbernen Ballon in der ägyptischen Wüste zur Landung und schrieben damit Geschichte. Bertrand Piccard und Brian Jones hatten geschafft, was Pioniere jahrzehntelang vergeblich versucht hatten: die gesamte Wüste zu überfliegen.
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story No engine. No jet fuel. No rocket. Just a slender white sailplane, its long wings feeding on invisible rivers of rising air, climbing higher than a U-2 spy plane into the freezing black of the stratosphere. In 2018, the engineless Perlan 2 glider...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a...
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