Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, Howard Hughes was seventy-five minutes into the first official flight of his new reconnaissance aircraft when the right side of it stopped cooperating. Every instrument said the engine was fine. It was. What had failed was one half of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or fire anything. At...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At 2005 on 17 May 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was told that an Iraqi aircraft had left the mainland and was heading south down the Persian Gulf. This was not alarming. Iraqi aircraft did this most nights, hunting tankers carrying Iranian oil, and they...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It looked like the future had landed on a dry lakebed in California: a needle-nosed, stiletto-slim jet built entirely for speed, sheathed in titanium, designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest research aircraft of its...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Im Film „Captain America“ entkommt der Bösewicht an Bord eines eleganten, schwanzlosen Nurflüglers. Es sieht aus wie Science-Fiction. Ganz erfunden ist es aber nicht: Das Design ist fast direkt von einem realen deutschen Flugzeug übernommen, das im letzten Winter des Zweiten Weltkriegs flog.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
1939 wagte das US Army Air Corps etwas Ungewöhnliches: Es forderte die amerikanische Industrie auf, alle bisherigen Vorstellungen vom Aussehen eines Jagdflugzeugs zu überdenken. Das Ergebnis war eines der seltsamsten Kampfflugzeuge, die das Land je geflogen hat – ein Jagdflugzeug mit dem Motor im Rumpf….
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