Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For three decades during the Cold War, Britain’s nuclear deterrent rested on the wings of three extraordinary aircraft: the Vickers Valiant, the Avro Vulcan, and the Handley Page Victor. Known collectively as the V-bombers, they were designed to carry atomic and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The Handley Page Victor was the last and most advanced of Britain’s three V-bombers — and the one with the longest career. Designed to carry nuclear weapons to Moscow at high altitude, it outlived its original mission by decades, reinventing itself as the Royal...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers, opened...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Twenty Sea Harriers sailed south with the Royal Navy task force in April 1982. None of them should have survived. The Argentine Air Force outnumbered them five to one, flew faster jets, and operated from concrete runways while the British pilots launched from pitching...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Heute vor fünfzig Jahren – am 1. Juli 1976 – öffnete das Nationale Luft- und Raumfahrtmuseum der Smithsonian Institution seine Pforten auf der National Mall in Washington, D.C. Es war ein Geschenk zum 200-jährigen Jubiläum einer Nation, die gerade Menschen auf den Mond gebracht, das Weltraumrennen gewonnen und eine...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock — France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of Super Étendard strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Jedes Flugzeug auf dieser Liste wirkte auf dem Papier wie eine geniale Idee. Hinter jedem steckten beträchtliche Summen, ausgefeilte Ingenieursleistungen und große Ambitionen. Und jedes endete auf die gleiche Weise: eingestellt, verschrottet oder stillschweigend begraben, nachdem ein Vermögen verschwendet worden war, ohne jemals seinen Zweck zu erfüllen.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Picture a fighter that cannot shoot straight ahead. No guns in the nose, none in the wings — nothing the pilot can aim simply by pointing the aircraft. Instead, all four machine guns sit in a powered turret behind the cockpit, worked by a second crewman. This...
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