Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
By the summer of 1958 the experimental shop at Hawker’s Kingston works held something very close to a complete aeroplane. The wing was built. The fuselage frames were joined. The undercarriage had been tested, the systems rigged, the wind-tunnel programme all...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 21 August 1963 a Tupolev Tu-124 ran out of fuel over the middle of Leningrad, glided for fourteen seconds, cleared a bridge, and landed on the River Neva without killing anybody. A tug that happened to be towing a raft of timber past the spot cast off, came...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The hard part of hypersonics is not going fast. It is going fast often enough to learn anything. Flight tests above Mach 5 are rare, enormously expensive and frequently one-shot. A programme might get a handful of attempts across a decade, and if two of them fail...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The United States Air Force has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reapers since the Iran war began. That is roughly a quarter of the fleet, gone, in about a year. The service has now decided that the answer is not a better Reaper. It is a cheaper one — and it wants it four...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Am 24. November 1961 hob eine Maschine, die aussah, als hätte jemand zwei Hubschrauber an die Flügelspitzen eines Transportflugzeugs geschraubt, 16,4 Tonnen auf eine Höhe von zweieinhalb Kilometern, stellte in einem Flug sechs Weltrekorde auf und landete dreißig Minuten später mit einer Warnleuchte für zu wenig Treibstoff...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Russland präsentiert nächste Woche seinen Exportkampfjet an der ägyptischen Küste und bringt dabei etwas mit, das es noch nie zuvor jemandem gezeigt hat. Der russische Staatskonzern Rostec kündigt an, dass die Su-57E vom 8. bis 10. September auf der internationalen Luftfahrtschau in El Alamein fliegen wird.
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