Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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 ever managed to fly...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
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 turned to meet two...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
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 Ukrainian air-defence...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
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 Chief less than two...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
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 Civilization” joint exercise...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
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 Rosneft, and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Steht man neben einer Antonov An-22, während sie ihre Triebwerke hochfährt, hört man es nicht nur, man spürt es. Vier der stärksten je gebauten Turboprop-Triebwerke treiben acht gewaltige Propeller an, deren Blätter jeweils einen Kreis beschreiben, der höher ist als ein Haus, und der Klang ist ein tiefes, reißendes Geräusch ….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Am 21. März 1999 landeten zwei erschöpfte Männer mit einem riesigen silbernen Ballon in der ägyptischen Wüste und schrieben damit Geschichte. Bertrand Piccard und Brian Jones hatten geschafft, was Pioniere jahrzehntelang vergeblich versucht hatten: die Welt zu umrunden.
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Kein Motor. Kein Kerosin. Keine Rakete. Nur ein schlanker, weißer Segelflieger, dessen lange Flügel unsichtbare Aufwinde nutzten und höher stiegen als ein U-2-Spionageflugzeug in die eisige Schwärze der Stratosphäre. Im Jahr 2018 erreichte der motorlose Segelflieger Perlan 2 eine Höhe von 76.124 Fuß….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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 funhouse mirror, and it...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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