Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Jemand im sowjetischen Luftfahrtministerium entschied, dass die Landwirtschaft ein Düsenflugzeug brauchte. Kein Trainingsflugzeug, kein Transportflugzeug. Ein Düsen-Sprühflugzeug. Ein Doppeldecker. Die PZL M-15 Belphegor ist der einzige jemals in Serie gefertigte düsengetriebene Doppeldecker...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Am 21. Oktober 1929 startete ein Flugboot mit 169 Personen an Bord vom Bodensee. Nie zuvor hatte ein Flugzeug annähernd so viele Passagiere befördert. Der Rekord sollte etwa zwanzig Jahre Bestand haben. Die Dornier Do X besaß zwölf Motoren, die in sechs Reihen über den Tragflächen angeordnet waren….
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Egypt was the first country outside France to buy the Rafale. Eleven years later, it may be about to become the type’s biggest foreign customer by a wide margin. On 2 September 2026 the French daily La Tribune reported that Cairo has submitted a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The treeline is close enough to count individual trees. The horizon sits high in the windscreen, the ground blurring past in green streaks, and somewhere ahead a small jet-powered cruise missile is running for a Ukrainian city at roughly the speed of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Germany spent Tuesday accusing Russia of trying to blow up a Ukrainian freighter on German soil. Russia spent the hours that followed escalating its denial, first through its embassy in Berlin, then through Vladimir Putin himself. The sequence...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In 1947 Avro proposed a bomber shaped like nothing the Royal Air Force had ever bought: a vast tailless delta with no fuselage worth the name, meant to carry a nuclear weapon at high altitude across a continent. It became the Avro Vulcan. There was a...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story On a spring morning at Bordeaux-Mérignac in 1971, a sleek twin-jet lifted off carrying the hopes of the French aircraft industry. Marcel Dassault had built fighters that governments queued up for. Now he was going after Boeing, on...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story In the early 1950s, neutral Sweden set out to build a supersonic interceptor unlike anything else in the world — a fighter with a strange, folded ‘double-delta’ wing. It was such a radical idea that no one could be sure the shape...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story When Emmanuel Macron flew to Stockholm at the end of August, the headline deal was maritime: four French frigates for the Swedish navy, a multi-billion-euro vote of confidence in NATO’s newest member. But tucked alongside it was something that...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Before dawn on Tuesday, sirens and phone alerts woke residents across eight regions of Estonia. A drone had crossed the country’s southeastern frontier, and a second was tracking toward the border city of Narva. On the runway at Ämari Air...
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