Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 27 February 1974, a Soviet Antonov An-24 came down the approach into Gambell, Alaska, with one engine already dead from fuel starvation. It was not supposed to be there. It was supposed to be in Provideniya, 62 miles away across the Bering Sea in the USSR, but...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Argentina bought five fighter jets from France, paid for them, and took delivery in May 2019. Seven years later, not one of them has flown a single operational sortie. On 20 August the Argentine Navy stopped pretending they ever would. The aircraft were fine. The...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Four twin-engined transports fly line abreast, eighty metres apart, a hundred and fifty feet above the canopy. Behind each one a white plume spreads and settles into the trees. The run takes about four and a half minutes and covers sixteen kilometres. The crews called...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The 413th Flight Test Squadron does not fly rescue missions. It is a test unit. It puts helicopters through developmental trials and writes up the results. But when the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center calls, it is usually because everything else has already been...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Paraguay has not flown a jet combat aircraft since 2003, when the last Aermacchi-derived AT-26 Xavantes were retired. It has never flown a supersonic one. Now it is looking at a country 18,000 kilometres away that has just retired the largest fleet of Northrop F-5s...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Some aeroplanes shout. The Percival Mew Gull whispered — a slip of a thing, barely twenty feet long, its wings not much wider than a family car, built almost entirely of wood and glue in a shed at Gravesend. You could have mistaken it for a toy. And yet, through...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 24 May 1928, a silver airship called the Italia circled the top of the world. Below her lay the North Pole, and her crew dropped an Italian flag, a banner from Milan and a small wooden cross onto the endless white. It was a triumph. It should have been the story....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over the Channel, in a slick of oil and cold grey swell, a fighter pilot is treading water and losing the argument with hypothermia. He hears it before he sees it: a slow, clattering drone, an aeroplane that looks less like it is flying and more like it is...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the last spring of the Second World War, Dutch children ran into the open fields as British bombers roared overhead, not to hide, but to wave. Because these Lancasters were not carrying bombs. They were raining down bread, tinned meat and chocolate on a nation that...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Während sich erstickender Rauch über Borneo ausbreitet, bekämpft Indonesien die Brände mit den Naturgewalten selbst. Am 21. August 2026 starteten fünf weitere Flugzeuge der indonesischen Luftwaffe vom Luftwaffenstützpunkt Abdulrachman Saleh in Malang mit Ziel West- und Ostkalimantan.
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