Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Grumman set out to build the finest carrier fighter of the Second World War: a twin-engine brute that could outrun and outgun anything in the sky and haul a bomber’s worth of ordnance off a flight deck. It succeeded. The Tigercat was...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Shortly after 11 a.m. on 16 August 1942, a sagging, half-deflated US Navy blimp came drifting low over the rooftops of Daly City, California, snagging telephone wires as a crowd chased it through the streets. It finally sank onto the pavement in front...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story He had one eye, a sixth-grade education and a criminal record. He was also, by any honest measure, one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. Wiley Post circled the planet alone before most people had ever sat in an aeroplane, built the suit that made...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Curtiss was once one of the giants of American aviation. It built the fighters that fought the First World War, the racing seaplanes that set world records in the 1920s, and the P-40 Warhawks whose shark-mouthed noses became a symbol of the Second...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Canada has designed exactly one fighter that went into mass production, and it was not the famous one. Everybody remembers the Avro Arrow, the beautiful Mach-2 interceptor that politics killed before it could serve. Almost nobody outside Canada...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Line the Folland Gnat up next to almost any other jet fighter and it looks like a scale model that wandered onto the ramp by mistake. It is shorter than a Spitfire. A tall pilot practically wears it. And yet this pocket-sized British jet became the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the autumn of 1996, a jet took off from a secret airfield in the Nevada desert that looked less like an aircraft and more like a prop from a science-fiction film. Faceless, tailless, hunched, its single engine hidden inside its spine, it slipped...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Picture a fighter shaped like a dinner plate. Not a sleek dart, not a graceful sweep of wings — a fat, near-circular disc with a bubble canopy stuck on top and two enormous propellers windmilling at the tips. It looks like something that should be...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On 13 October 1954, a Royal Navy pilot named Lieutenant B.D. Macfarlane was catapulted off the carrier HMS Albion when his engine died. His aircraft flopped into the sea directly ahead of the ship, which then ran straight over it, slicing the fighter...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Some aircraft are beautiful. The Blackburn Beverley was not one of them. It looked like a shipping container that had grown four propellers and a pair of tails and decided to fly anyway — a slab-sided barn of an aeroplane with its wheels bolted...
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