Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Retired jets are supposed to sit quietly in a desert, gathering dust and pigeons. Somebody forgot to tell the Nighthawk. Eighteen years after the US Air Force officially waved goodbye, a dry-as-toast government contracting notice has just outed one of the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best look yet at a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
After years of slipped deadlines, restarted production lines, and enough delay drama to fill a season of prestige TV, Taiwan’s first factory-fresh Vipers are finally pointed home. Two jets, tail numbers 6727 and 6728, lifted off from Fort Worth, Texas, on 17...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It started before dawn. Eight strikes, one runway, and a message aimed squarely at Ankara. Overnight on 18-19 August 2026, Israeli jets cratered the Abu Duhur air base in Syria’s Idlib province, and by sunrise the diplomatic fallout was louder than the bombs....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Analysten offener Quellen berichten, dass ukrainische Streitkräfte am frühen Morgen des 20. August 2026 den russischen Luftwaffenstützpunkt Achtubinsk in der Region Astrachan angegriffen und einen Su-34-Jagdbomber beschädigt haben. Diese Behauptung stützt sich auf Satellitenbilder, die von OSINT-Kanälen verbreitet wurden, und nicht auf offizielle Bestätigungen.
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Every modern aircraft carrier shares one strange feature: the landing runway is skewed off to one side, pointing away from the ship’s centreline. It looks like an afterthought. It is actually one of the most important safety inventions in aviation history...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost nobody remembers it....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the most successful...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
The passengers on BOAC Flight 911 were promised a treat: a close-up view of Mount Fuji, gleaming under a brilliant blue sky. Minutes later, the sky that looked so calm tore their Boeing 707 apart. The disaster of 5 March 1966 is one of aviation’s starkest...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Amid the Mirages, Skyhawks and Super Étendards of the 1982 Falklands War, the scrappiest Argentine aircraft of all was a stubby twin-turboprop that looked like it belonged in a different decade. The FMA IA 58 Pucará was slow, propeller-driven, and utterly outclassed...
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