Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the autumn of 1942, the strangest fighter in America sat on a dry lakebed in the Mojave wearing a lie. Whenever the aircraft was parked in the open, ground crews bolted a dummy wooden propeller to its nose, because the machine hidden beneath the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Ask anyone who served in Vietnam what the war sounded like, and many will give you the same answer: a rhythmic, chopping whop-whop-whop rolling in over the trees. It was the sound of the Bell UH-1 — the Huey — and depending on which end of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte. Kurz nach Sonnenaufgang am Montag erreichten Luftschutzsirenen und Motorenlärm eine Stadt, die vom Großteil des Krieges unberührt geblieben war. Nischnekamsk liegt etwa 1200 Kilometer (750 Meilen) vom nächsten ukrainisch kontrollierten Gebiet entfernt, tief in der russischen Republik...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect...
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