Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In the last week of August, in a village in the Swiss canton of Glarus, a small grey helicopter with no one inside it lifted off, flew a profile, and landed again. It did this five more times, in six different airframes. Painted on the side of each one, under a naval...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Somewhere over the Luhansk region, a Russian Su-34 Fullback pulls into a shallow climb at around 12,000 metres, holds it for a few seconds, and lets go of four objects that look like ordinary bombs wearing borrowed wings. The aircraft never crosses the front line. It...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Stand at the fence at almost any air base and the fin of a fighter will tell you, if you can read it, which country owns the aircraft, which base it lives at, which squadron flies it, which year it was ordered, and occasionally whether the person strapped into it...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1949, English Electric wanted to build a supersonic fighter with sixty degrees of wing sweep. Nobody in the world had flown a wing swept that far. The Royal Aircraft Establishment thought it would be uncontrollable at low speed, and said so. There was no...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Every airborne early warning aircraft in the world looks broadly the same: a transport or an airliner with an enormous rotating dish balanced on struts above the fuselage. The Hawkeye does it. The Sentry does it. Even GlobalEye, which uses a fixed array rather than a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At 00:16 on 6 June 1944, a wooden glider carrying twenty-eight men hit the ground at over ninety miles an hour, tore through barbed wire, and stopped about fifty yards from a bridge over the Caen Canal. It had been cast off from a bomber at 7,000 feet nine minutes...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The Netherlands is buying one aeroplane. That sounds like a rounding error in a defence budget, and it is arguably the most interesting procurement decision in European air power this month. On 10 September 2026, the Dutch Ministry of Defence and Saab announced that...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The photograph looks like an accident in progress. Two columns of black smoke stand on the runway at Barksdale Air Force Base, thick enough to swallow an eight-engined bomber whole, and out of the murk a third B-52 Stratofortress is coming, wings level, still low....
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