Der Jet, der hängend an einem Haken abhob
Share this story Picture a flatbed trailer tilting slowly skyward in the California desert until it stands almost vertical, and clinging to it nose-up like a wasp on a windowpane, a stubby silver dart of an aircraft. There is no runway in sight. There is no landing...
Chinas Frachtdrohne flog selbstständig
Share this story On a grey morning in Pucheng, in China’s Shaanxi province, a chunky white-and-blue aircraft with two propellers and a twin-boom tail rolled down the runway, lifted off, and flew a full 22-minute circuit — climb, manoeuvre, approach and...
Amazons Lieferdrohnen haben gerade die USA verlassen
Share this story In a back garden in Darlington, a 40-kilo aircraft drops out of the County Durham sky, hovers about four metres up, releases a shoebox-sized parcel onto the lawn, and climbs away again. No van. No driver. No knock on the door. Just a tube of mascara,...
Der $9 Milliarden Dollar teure Jet, der nie einen Passagier beförderte
Share this story It flew. That is the strangest, most expensive part of the whole story. The Mitsubishi SpaceJet was not a paper aeroplane or a CGI fantasy that died on a designer’s screen. It rolled out, it taxied, it rotated off the runway at Nagoya, and it...
Philippine Airlines setzt ihre A350-1000 auf dem Manila–Toronto-Marathon ein
Share this story Philippine Airlines has just made one of the world’s longest commercial hops a little fresher. As of 5 June 2026, the flag carrier is flying its brand-new Airbus A350-1000 nonstop between Manila and Toronto — a roughly 13,200 km marathon...
Der Jäger mit den Flügeln verkehrt herum
Share this story Picture a desert morning at Edwards in 1949: dust, sagebrush, and a fighter that looks like someone bolted the wings on the wrong way round. Most aircraft wings are fat where they meet the fuselage and slim to a graceful point at the tip. The Republic...
Japan hat einen Jet weiß foliert. Warum?
Share this story 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...
Singapore Airlines plant 50 neue Großraumflugzeuge
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Wenn Singapore Airlines Flugzeuge kauft, schaut die gesamte Branche gespannt zu. Die Fluggesellschaft mit Sitz in Changi hat sich über Jahrzehnte einen Ruf als Maßstab für Premium-Langstreckenflüge erarbeitet, und die von ihr ausgewählten Jets werden oft zu den...
Der Mann, der vom Rande des Weltraums sprang
Share this story 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...
Der Trick mit der Colaflasche, der die Schallmauer durchbrach
Share this story 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....
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