Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of tall steel...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a warm night in the summer of 1915, Londoners looked up from their blacked-out streets and heard something no city had ever heard before: the steady drone of engines coming out of the dark, high overhead. Moments later, bombs began to fall from a vast silver shape...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the last spring of the Second World War, Dutch children ran into the open fields as British bombers roared overhead, not to hide, but to wave. Because these Lancasters were not carrying bombs. They were raining down bread, tinned meat and chocolate on a nation that...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the night of Aug. 17, 1943, a rocket engineer named Wernher von Braun walked back to his quarters on a quiet stretch of the German Baltic coast and looked up. A full moon hung over the secret research town of Peenemünde. Then the first flares blossomed in the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Bulgaria has spent years trying to drag its air force into the NATO era, and it has just been handed some unwelcome news. The second batch of eight brand-new F-16 Block 70 fighters, once promised by the end of 2027, may not arrive until 2030. Lockheed Martin has told...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Als am 10. August 2026 ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7,4 den Westen Kolumbiens erschütterte, traf die amerikanische Hilfe mit vier Triebwerken ein. Innerhalb weniger Tage landeten Transportflugzeuge des Typs C-17 Globemaster III der US-Luftwaffe in Bogotá und Medellín, ihre Frachträume...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Während sich erstickender Rauch über Borneo ausbreitet, bekämpft Indonesien die Brände mit den Naturgewalten selbst. Am 21. August 2026 starteten fünf weitere Flugzeuge der indonesischen Luftwaffe vom Luftwaffenstützpunkt Abdulrachman Saleh in Malang mit Ziel West- und Ostkalimantan.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die US-Luftwaffe plant, im nächsten Jahr 38 F-35-Tarnkappenjäger zu beschaffen. Ihre einflussreichste Interessenvertretung hält das für völlig unzureichend und fordert mindestens 60 Maschinen pro Jahr. In einem Brief an die Kongressabgeordneten schrieb die Air & Air Force diese Woche….
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