Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of tall steel...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best look yet at a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Analysten offener Quellen berichten, dass ukrainische Streitkräfte am frühen Morgen des 20. August 2026 den russischen Luftwaffenstützpunkt Achtubinsk in der Region Astrachan angegriffen und einen Su-34-Jagdbomber beschädigt haben. Diese Behauptung stützt sich auf Satellitenbilder, die von OSINT-Kanälen verbreitet wurden, und nicht auf offizielle Bestätigungen.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost nobody remembers it....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the most successful...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft it was meant to...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation’s strangest...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Indiens Kampfflugzeugproblem war einst ein überschaubares Problem. Dutzende fertige Tejas Mk1A-Flugzeugzellen standen bei Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Nashik und Bengaluru und warteten auf ein einziges fehlendes Teil, das General Electric F404-Triebwerk von...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The most consequential upgrade the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has ever received will not change how the aircraft looks. No new wing, no new rotodome, no obvious external clue. What changes sits behind the fuselage skin: the computers, the software, the cockpit and the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Peru has quietly filled in one of the most important blanks on its future fighter. On 19 August 2026, L3Harris confirmed it had been selected to supply the AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield electronic-warfare suite for the F-16 Block 70s destined for the Fuerza Aérea del...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The comparison arrives within about ninety seconds of any conversation about defence budgets. Europe is rearming, China is building warships at a pace nobody can match, and somebody says it: this is how it felt before 1914. Sometimes they reach for the other analogy...
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