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...
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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Sometimes the most valuable aircraft is the one that proves an idea wrong. The tiny Northrop X-4 Bantam is exactly that: a jet built to test a tempting theory about the sound barrier, which flew well enough to demonstrate, conclusively, that the theory was a dead end....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Irgendwo über der Ukraine dröhnt heute Abend ein Rasenmähermotor, der an einen Sprengkopf montiert ist, auf eine Stadt zu. Er heißt Shahed-136, Russland fertigt eigene Kopien unter dem Namen Geran-2, und er kostet zwischen 20.000 und 50.000 Dollar. Das Problem war nie...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Imagine hanging in space, five miles up, strapped into a single-seat jet that is not flying. It is dangling. Above your canopy, filling the entire sky, is the underside of the largest bomber the world has ever built, six propellers and four jets of it, roaring and...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 17 August 2026, in a New Delhi government building most people have never heard of, India signed a contract to rent two robotic aircraft for the price of a small skyscraper. The deal, worth about Rs 1,943 crore (roughly US$200 million), leases two more MQ-9B...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A U.S. Air Force transport took off from New Zealand on Tuesday morning bound for Antarctica, flew south for more than an hour, and then did something aircrews almost never do on that route: it turned around and went home. The reason was not weather, and it was not a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the summer of 1991, the Royal Air Force flew supersonic Tornados, was preparing for the Eurofighter, and had just watched stealth aircraft debut over Iraq. And the aircraft it relied on to spot incoming threats and guard the northern approaches to Britain was a...
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