Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the 1950s the trend in military aircraft ran one way: bigger, heavier, more complex. Ed Heinemann ran the other way. When the U.S. Navy asked Douglas for a new jet attack aircraft and set a weight limit of 30,000 pounds, Heinemann came back with a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story The problem was geometry. A German dam in 1943 was a wall of masonry more than a hundred feet thick at its base, protected by torpedo nets in the water and anti-aircraft guns on the crest. A bomb dropped from altitude would miss; a torpedo would snag...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story At 07:55 on the morning of 18 April 1988, a voice crackled from the destroyer USS Merrill across the VHF band, first in Farsi, then in English: the occupants of the Sassan gas and oil separation platform had five minutes to leave. On the steel decks...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story Commercial satellite imagery has revealed two hardened structures of an unfamiliar type at China’s most important missile test and training complex, and their geometry does not match anything previously catalogued there. The structures, at the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Das wichtigste Dokument in der Geschichte der Tarnkappenflugzeuge wurde weder in Kalifornien noch auf einem geheimen Flugplatz in der Wüste verfasst. Es entstand in Moskau, auf Russisch, von einem sowjetischen Physiker – und die Sowjetunion ließ es ins Ausland gelangen, weil sie die Arbeit für irrelevant hielt.
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