Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Last week we told you that America had lost roughly a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet in the war with Iran. That eye-watering number — around 45 drones, more than $1.3 billion — turned out to be a single line in a much longer invoice. Nearly six months...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Russian state television has aired footage of a new strike drone called the BM-35, and the numbers attached to it are eye-catching: a jet engine, a top speed of more than 350 km/h, and a claim that Ukrainian interceptors simply cannot catch it. As always with weapons...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Overnight into 16 August, a large wave of Ukrainian drones flew toward the Moscow and Rostov regions, setting warehouses alight and, according to Russian officials, causing several casualties. It was, by the account of the Moscow regional governor, one of the biggest...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Picture the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin in February 1938. The arena is packed. Down on the floor sits a contraption that looks like a light trainer that has lost its wings and grown two enormous three-blade fans on outrigger struts. A slight young woman climbs into the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
It was the eve of the Obon holiday, when families across Japan travel home to honour their ancestors. Japan Airlines Flight 123 lifted off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport at 18:12 on 12 August 1985, bound for Osaka. The aircraft was a Boeing 747SR, a short-range...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
It was supposed to be an ordinary Tuesday. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 lifted off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport on the morning of 17 April 2018, bound for Dallas with 149 people aboard. First Officer Darren Ellisor was flying the leg; in the left seat,...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
It was meant to be one of the shortest, dullest legs in the timetable. At 19:52 on 8 January 1989, British Midland Flight 92 climbed away from London Heathrow bound for Belfast, a Boeing 737-400 with 118 passengers and eight crew aboard. The aircraft was almost...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On the morning of 27 March 1977, neither KLM Flight 4805 nor Pan Am Flight 1736 was meant to be anywhere near Tenerife. Both Boeing 747s were bound for Gran Canaria when a bomb planted by a separatist group tore through the terminal at Las Palmas. With a warning of a...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
There are aircraft one admires, and there are aircraft one falls a little in love with. The Latécoère 631 belongs firmly to the second category. Conceived in Toulouse, the spiritual home of French aviation, she was the last and grandest of the great...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
By 1943 the arithmetic over Germany had turned against the Luftwaffe. American daylight bomber streams — the tight, mutually-defending boxes of B-17s and B-24s — were arriving in numbers that piston fighters could not blunt fast enough. Blohm & Voss...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Few aircraft have been asked to carry as much mythology on so little lift as the Sack AS-6. Search the phrase ‘Nazi flying saucer’ and this stubby, disc-winged machine appears again and again, presented as evidence that the Third Reich was on the verge of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Here is a fact that sounds invented: to bail out of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster, you first had to blow your own propellers off. The two blades spinning behind the tail would have shredded anyone who jumped, so Douglas wired the tailcone with explosives to fling the...
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