Share this story At a quarter to eight on the morning of 5 June 1967, Egyptian air-defence officers were changing shifts, the dawn patrol had landed, and hundreds of Soviet-built fighters sat parked in neat rows across eighteen airfields. Within roughly three hours,...
Share this story A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s...
Share this story Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from...
Share this story On the evening of 1 February 1985, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 767 pushed back at Boston’s Logan Airport, bound for Paris. To the passengers it was an ordinary red-eye. It was anything but. Sixteen TWA pilots had been through special training...
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...
Share this story The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators...
Schaut man sich die Seite des Schiffes an, sieht man es: den Schattenriss eines Flugzeugs. Zwei Tragflächen, ein Rumpf, sogar die Streben eines festen Fahrwerks – die Silhouette eines Flugzeugs in Originalgröße, auf grauen Schiffsstahl gedruckt. Es ist eines der seltsamsten und eindringlichsten Fotos überhaupt ….
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...
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….
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...
Share this story Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
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...
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