XB-70 gegen Suchoi T-4: Das Mach-3-Rennen, das niemand gewann
Share this story In the late 1950s, both superpowers reached the same conclusion: the future of strategic bombing was speed. Build a bomber that flies at Mach 3 and nothing can catch it. No interceptor, no missile, no air defence system could touch an aircraft...
Der A321XLR verändert alles für Transatlantikflüge
Share this story United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR — and with it, the promise that crossing the Atlantic in a narrowbody jet does not have to mean suffering through it. The aircraft, registered N64321, left Airbus’s...
NASA-X-59 durchbricht erstmals die Schallmauer
Share this story At 43,400 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, the needle crossed Mach 1.1. No bang. No boom. Just a soft thump that most people on the ground wouldn’t notice. On 5 June 2026, NASA’s X-59 QueSST did what 53 years of regulation said commercial...
Azul verstärkt sich auf den A330neo
Share this story While American carriers agonise over whether to order Airbus widebodies, a Brazilian airline has quietly answered the question for itself. Azul has signed for four more Airbus A330-900neos — doubling down on the jet that has become the backbone of its...
Chinas dreimotoriger Stealth-Gigant taucht auf
Share this story It has no tail, three engines, and a planform like a stingray crossed with a stealth bomber. It is the most radical-looking combat aircraft on Earth — and it is Chinese. Grainy photographs of Chengdu’s tailless giant, widely dubbed the J-36, keep...
American könnte Boeing zugunsten von Airbus fallen lassen – eine überraschende Wendung.
Share this story American Airlines flies more aircraft than almost anyone on Earth, yet it has quietly backed itself into a corner over the ocean. Its long-haul order book has dwindled to just 19 jets. Now the airline is preparing to fix that — and the most...
Die seltsamsten Flugzeugfriedhöfe der Welt
Share this story Somewhere in the Arizona desert, 4,000 aircraft are parked in perfect rows under a sun that never stops shining. F-16s with their canopies sealed in white latex. B-52s guillotined into pieces under arms-reduction treaties, left in the open for...
Die Rutan-Reise: Neun Tage ohne Landung
Share this story On 14 December 1986, a spindly aircraft made almost entirely of paper, glue, and carbon fibre wobbled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base with so much fuel aboard that its wingtips dragged on the concrete, damaging the winglets. Nine days, three...
Die Wiedergutmachung der F-111 Aardvark: Vom Desaster zur Feuerwand
Share this story No aircraft in American history has been hated, redeemed, and mourned quite like the F-111 Aardvark. Born from Robert McNamara’s disastrous TFX programme — an attempt to force the Air Force and Navy to share a single airframe — it arrived...
Lufthansa-787-Untersuchung: Was ging an einem vier Monate alten Dreamliner kaputt?
Share this story Update: This article provides the latest on the investigation into the Lufthansa 787 nose gear collapse at Frankfurt Airport. For our initial coverage, see Brand-New Lufthansa 787 Drops on Its Nose. Germany’s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident...
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