Der Jäger mit den Flügeln verkehrt herum
Stellen Sie sich einen Morgen in der Wüste von Edwards im Jahr 1949 vor: Staub, Salbeisträucher und ein Jagdflugzeug, dessen Tragflächen aussehen, als hätte jemand sie falsch herum angeschraubt. Die meisten Flugzeugtragflächen sind am Rumpfansatz breit und verjüngen sich elegant zur Spitze hin. Die Republic XF-91...
Japan hat einen Jet weiß foliert. Warum?
On a humid June afternoon, a Japanese plane-spotter pointed a long lens at the flight line of Gifu Air Base and froze. Tucked against a hangar wall sat something large, the size of a fighter, and it was wrapped from nose to tail in white fabric like a piece of...
Singapore Airlines plant 50 neue Großraumflugzeuge
When Singapore Airlines goes shopping for aircraft, the rest of the industry leans in to watch. The Changi-based carrier has spent decades building a reputation as a benchmark for premium long-haul flying, and the jets it chooses tend to become the jets everyone else...
Der Mann, der vom Rande des Weltraums sprang
On 16 August 1960, a tiny open gondola hung beneath an enormous helium balloon, 102,800 feet above the New Mexico desert. That is more than 31 kilometres up — high enough that the sky overhead is black, the horizon curves, and there is almost no air left to breathe....
Der Trick mit der Colaflasche, der die Schallmauer durchbrach
In the early 1950s, the newest, fastest jets in the world kept running into an invisible wall. They would accelerate beautifully — and then, just short of the speed of sound, a surge of drag would swallow their engines’ power and stop them dead. Brand-new fighters...
Die sowjetische SR-71, die nie flog
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever ripped across the sky, a Soviet aircraft designer was already trying to build something to beat it. His name was Pavel Tsybin, and his creation — the RSR — was meant to streak over the United States at three times the speed of sound,...
Where Asia’s Jets Will Go to Be Fixed
When an airliner needs more than a routine turnaround — one of the deep, weeks-long teardowns that strip it to the structure, inspect everything and put it back together — it doesn’t just taxi to a gate. It disappears into an MRO: a maintenance, repair and overhaul...
Sydney’s New Airport Never Closes
For as long as most Sydneysiders can remember, the city’s air traffic has run into a wall every night. Kingsford Smith Airport — Sydney’s only major gateway — shuts to most aircraft between 11pm and 6am under a hard legal curfew. After dark, one of the busiest...
Vietnam Built a Lotus Mega-Airport in Five Years
Rise above the red earth east of Ho Chi Minh City and a vast lotus flower seems to bloom out of the construction dust. It is not a sculpture. It is the roof of Long Thanh International Airport — Vietnam’s roughly US$16 billion bet on becoming one of Southeast Asia’s...
Das Flugzeug, das beide Testpiloten tötete
There are bad aircraft, and then there is the Christmas Bullet — a machine so misconceived that it holds a record no other aeroplane will ever want: it killed a test pilot on its first flight, and then killed a second test pilot on the first flight of the second...
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