Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States lay awake at night worrying about Soviet bombers slipping across the Arctic in the dark. The aircraft it scrambled to meet them was the Lockheed F-94 Starfire — the first American jet fighter with an...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Some aircraft are cancelled because they fail. The Douglas F5D Skylancer was cancelled because it was too good, too late, and built by the wrong company. It went supersonic on its very first flight, handled beautifully, and impressed every pilot who...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Take an F-16 Fighting Falcon, throw away its wing, and bolt on a vast cranked-arrow delta that nearly doubles its area. Stretch the fuselage, cram in 65 percent more fuel, and hang bombs from twenty-seven stations. What you get flies farther, carries...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story When the Grumman X-29 stunned airshow crowds in the 1980s with wings that swept the wrong way, and again when Russia rolled out the Su-47 Berkut, both were hailed as radical leaps. Neither was first. A German bomber had already flown on forward-swept...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States, home of Boeing and Douglas and the world’s mightiest aircraft industry, went shopping abroad for a bomber. It bought a British one. The Martin B-57 Canberra — an American-built version of the English...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force wanted a single machine that could climb fast, find a Soviet bomber on its own radar, and kill it with a bay full of missiles before it reached an American city. The answer was the F-102 Delta Dagger — the...
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