Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1925, somewhere in the American countryside, Willard Ray Custer watched a windstorm peel the roof clean off a barn. Most people would have seen a repair bill. Custer saw physics. The roof had not moved forward — yet it rose. He reasoned that lift did not...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In June 1941 the United States rolled out a bomber so large that a B-17 could have parked under one of its wings. The Douglas XB-19 spanned 212 feet, carried sleeping bunks and a kitchen for its relief crew, and was, for a time, the largest aircraft ever to fly in...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The story is irresistible: in the depths of the Second World War, a colossal six-engine German bomber slips across the Atlantic, flies to within sight of the Manhattan skyline, photographs Long Island, and turns for home before America ever knows it was there. The...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Südkorea hat einen eigenen Tarnkappenjäger entwickelt. Nun strebt das Land eine eigene Langstreckenrakete an. Am 12. August unterzeichneten Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) und Hyundai Rotem am KAI-Hauptsitz in Sacheon eine Absichtserklärung zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung eines heimischen Flugzeugs.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
When people picture wartime aircraft, they picture fighters and bombers. Almost no one pictures a helicopter — yet by 1942 Germany was flying a nimble little rotorcraft off the decks of warships, spotting submarines in the Baltic. It was the Flettner Fl 282...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
By 1944 the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was already one of the biggest, heaviest single-engine fighters of the war — a seven-ton brute that pilots adored. Then Republic asked a wild question: what if we made it even bigger, and bolted on the most powerful piston...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Long before the Predator, before the Reaper, before a single Hellfire was ever fired from an unmanned aircraft, a little jet-powered drone with a bug’s name was already flying spy missions over the most heavily defended airspace on Earth. It was called the Ryan...
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