Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On September 27, 1956, Captain Milburn “Mel” Apt became the first human being to fly at three times the speed of sound. Minutes later he was dead. The Bell X-2 gave the world its first taste of Mach 3 and, on the very same flight, its...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story For thirty-five summers, one of the most beloved sounds over the Swiss Alps was the deep, uneven drone of three radial engines and the sight of a corrugated metal skin catching the light. It was the Junkers Ju 52 — “Tante Ju,” Auntie...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the winter of 1942, the odds facing an American bomber crew over Europe were close to a coin toss. The Eighth Air Force flew its heavy bombers by daylight, without enough fighter escort, straight into the teeth of German flak and fighters....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On a French airfield in 1916, you might have found two lion cubs named Whiskey and Soda padding between the tents, and a group of young Americans who had crossed an ocean to fight a war their own country had not yet joined. This was the Escadrille...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story By the summer of 1944, Charles Lindbergh was the most famous pilot alive and one of the most controversial men in America. He had crossed the Atlantic alone in 1927 and been adored for it. Then he had campaigned to keep the United States out of the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On the morning of December 8, 1941, the same Japanese offensive that had just shattered Pearl Harbor reached a speck of coral 2,000 miles to the west. Wake Island was barely three low islets around a lagoon — a refuelling stop with an airstrip,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story You could identify it from the ground before you could hear it: two long booms, a pod slung between them, and a wing that seemed to float without a fuselage behind it. Nothing else in the sky of 1942 looked remotely like the P-38 Lightning —...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story It was never glamorous. It never dropped a bomb, never dogfought, never broke the sound barrier. But for 32 years the T-1A Jayhawk did the quiet, essential job of turning student pilots into the people who fly America’s tankers and transports...
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