Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other’s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. So when Moscow claims a single fighter dropped two enemy jets in one pass, it is...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the last winter of World War II, Allied airmen flying night missions over Europe began to see something they could not explain. Glowing balls of light, orange and red, would appear beside their aircraft and pace them through the dark, matching...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story For forty years, aviation enthusiasts have chased a ghost. It has a name, a rumored shape, and a trail of strange evidence. What it does not have is a single confirmed photograph, a serial number, or an admission that it was ever built. The ghost is...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the darkest years of the Cold War, American engineers designed a weapon so appalling that many of the people building it were relieved when it was cancelled. It was a cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear reactor for an engine, and it was meant...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story On the morning of August 14, 2026, NATO fighter jets on Baltic Air Policing duty scrambled over eastern Latvia and shot down a drone that had crossed into the alliance’s airspace. The Latvian military said the aircraft had strayed into the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story India has just fired the starting gun on one of the biggest military aircraft competitions in the world. On August 12, 2026, its Defence Ministry issued a formal request for proposals for sixty new medium transport aircraft, opening a contest worth...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story When Air Force One lifted off from Ankara after the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, the whole world assumed it knew who was on board. The world was wrong. According to a Washington Post investigation revealed on August 10, President Trump publicly...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story A routine flight over central Texas ended in tragedy on August 12, 2026, when a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crashed near the town of Salado, killing both crew members aboard. The helicopter came down at around 1:30 in the afternoon, and the wreckage...
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