Share this story Ask almost anyone which aircraft won the Battle of Britain and you will get the same answer: the Spitfire. It is one of the most beautiful machines ever built, and it has earned its legend. But it is, at best, only half the story. The aircraft that...
Share this story In a refrigerated room hidden beneath London’s Smithfield Meat Market in 1943, behind a screen of hanging animal carcasses, a future Nobel Prize winner was busy perfecting a recipe. Not for food — for a building material. His task: prove that you...
Share this story At one minute past one in the morning on December 20, 1989, the warm tropical dark outside the Panamanian Defense Force barracks at Rio Hato was ripped apart by two enormous explosions. Soldiers tumbled from their bunks into the confusion, scanning a...
Diese Geschichte teilen: Ein fünfzehnstündiger Faden verbindet zwei der geschäftigsten Innovationszentren der Welt wieder. Ab dem 25. Oktober 2026 fliegt El Al wieder nonstop zwischen Tel Aviv und San Francisco – und verbindet damit Israel und das Silicon Valley wieder direkt.
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Am 10. Juni 2026 rollte eine Boeing 787-9 in einer auffälligen tiefvioletten Lackierung zum Stehen auf dem Flughafen London Heathrow. Für die meisten Reisenden war es nur ein weiterer Großraumflieger aus der Golfregion. Für die Luftfahrtindustrie war es der Moment, in dem eine drei Jahre alte PowerPoint-Präsentation endlich Realität wurde….
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Am 2. Juni 2026 hob ein unlackiertes, grün grundiertes Flugzeug in Toulouse ab, stieg auf über 41.000 Fuß und flog drei Stunden und 43 Minuten, bevor es zur Erde zurückkehrte. Es trug noch keine Airline-Farben – nur einen Arbeitstitel, der auf den Rumpf aufgedruckt war: “First…“.
Share this story The morning of 21 October 1947, a shape unlike anything that had ever left the ground rolled onto the sun-baked lakebed at Muroc Army Air Field. No fuselage. No tail. Just wing — 172 feet of it, curved and impossibly smooth, like something poured...
Share this story Here’s something the U.S. Navy doesn’t put in the recruitment brochures: the hardest thing a naval aviator will ever do isn’t dogfighting, or dodging surface-to-air missiles, or threading a low-level attack run through a mountain...
Share this story On a muggy Florida morning in early June, a modified motorized glider rolled onto the runway at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport and changed the trajectory of electric aviation. At the controls was Miguel Iturmendi — test pilot, company founder, and the...
Share this story Every fighter pilot trains for it. Most pray they’ll never experience it. The moment a jet engine — the machine that keeps you flying at 500 knots and 30,000 feet — stops working. Whether it’s a compressor stall that sounds like a cannon...
Share this story The Grumman A-6 Intruder was not fast. It was not pretty. It could not dogfight. What it could do was find a target in zero visibility — in monsoon rain, in fog, at night, in conditions that grounded every other aircraft on the carrier deck — and put...
Share this story The English Electric Lightning was not a sensible aircraft. It burned fuel at a rate that gave ground crews anxiety attacks. It had two Rolls-Royce Avon engines stacked vertically — one on top of the other — inside a fuselage so slim that the only...
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