Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected the Tecnam...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He landed on a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing — had been...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In the pre-dawn darkness of April 1, 2026, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 lifted off from Sheikh Isa Air Base and turned toward an incoming threat that ground-based air defenses had already failed to stop. Two Iranian drones were inbound. Within minutes,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In August 1914, when the first European armies crossed their borders and the Great War began, military aircraft were used for one purpose: watching. Unarmed reconnaissance planes flew over enemy lines, their observers sketching troop positions and supply routes. The...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of April 18, 1942 — four months and eleven days after Pearl Harbor — sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the pitching deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. They were headed for Tokyo. None of them had enough fuel to return. There was...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Two small, strange-looking aircraft were built in total secrecy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works facility in Burbank, California, between 1976 and 1977. They were angular, faceted, and looked like something a geometry student had folded out of sheet metal. They were...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1920, Bessie Coleman walked into every flight school in the United States that she could find. Every single one turned her away. She was Black. She was a woman. In Jim Crow America, that was two disqualifications, and neither was negotiable. So she learned French....
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