Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In der Geschichte der Kampfflugzeuge erinnert sich fast niemand an den Zweitplatzierten. Der unterlegene Jet erhält, wenn er Glück hat, eine Museumsplakette, der Sieger hingegen die Serienproduktion. Die Northrop YF-17 Cobra bildet die große Ausnahme. Sie verlor – und wurde dann dennoch...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Es gibt große Flugzeuge, und dann gab es die Mriya. Steht man unter einer Boeing 747, fühlt man sich klein. Steht man unter einer An-225, wirkt die 747 plötzlich klein. 33 Jahre lang existierte genau eine dieser Maschinen – ein sechsmotoriger sowjetischer Riese, gebaut für eine einzige….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story A number from a Chinese laboratory has been making the rounds, and it is a striking one: 95 percent. That, according to a computer simulation, is how often a Chengdu J-20 beat an American F-22 Raptor in a fight north of Taiwan. Read a little closer,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In March 2026, a silver jet with a wickedly swept wing thundered down a runway near Houston and hauled itself into the Texas sky. It was a North American F-100 Super Sabre — one of only two left flying anywhere on earth — and its return is a good...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the late 1930s, Bell Aircraft set out to build a fighter so ambitious that it needed gunners riding inside the engines. The result, the Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, was sleek, futuristic, bristling with cannon — and one of the most gloriously misguided...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Long before anyone talked about “loyal wingman” drones flying off crewed jets, the Soviet Union built the real thing: a flying aircraft carrier. A single giant bomber would haul as many as five fighters into the sky, cut them loose in mid-air — and,...
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