Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Die meisten modernen Kampfflugzeuge sind so konstruiert, dass sie Treffern möglichst ausweichen. Die Su-25 Frogfoot hingegen wurde entwickelt, um Treffer zu überstehen und trotzdem weiterzufliegen. Gedrungen, mit stumpfer Nase und umfassender Panzerung – die Suchoi Su-25, von ihren Besatzungen “Grach” (Rabe) und von der NATO “Frogfoot” genannt ….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Es ist nach Mitternacht über Saipan, Sommer 1944, und die Besatzung eines japanischen Bombers wähnt sich in der Dunkelheit in Sicherheit. Doch das ist ein Irrtum. Irgendwo unter und hinter ihnen gleitet ein großes, zweimotoriges Flugzeug in Position, sein Radaroperator murmelt Kursangaben, sein...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect white cone up...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did — rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a few desperate...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Cut a hole in the side of a jumbo jet, point a two-and-a-half-metre telescope out of it, and fly the whole contraption into the stratosphere at night. It sounds like a terrible idea. For twelve years, it was one of the most productive telescopes in the world.It was...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Imagine a cargo plane that works like a truck and trailer. It lands, drops off a fully loaded box, clips on an empty one, and is airborne again in minutes — while ground crews unload the box it left behind. In 1950, Fairchild actually built that airplane. It was...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked American industry a genuinely strange question: could a fighter take off straight up, standing on its tail, from a platform on the back of a warship? Lockheed’s answer was a stubby little aircraft that pointed its nose at...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over the Nevada desert on a July morning in 1957, five American officers stood in the open, looked straight up, and waited for a nuclear weapon to go off directly above their heads. There was no bunker. There was no lead shielding. There was a hand-lettered...
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