Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the autumn of 1940, a young man from Iowa or California or Brooklyn would stand at a Canadian train station with a suitcase and a lie ready on his lips. He was not, officially, going to war. His government had made that illegal. Joining the armed...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story On a sun-baked runway in north-eastern Thailand, two very different ideas of a modern fighter are parked wingtip to wingtip. On one side, China’s J-10C — the same delta-winged jet that Pakistan says it flew against Indian Rafales in 2025....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On a freezing April night in 1978, a South Korean airliner full of sleeping passengers wandered a thousand miles off course, over one of the most secret corners of the Soviet Union, and was hit by an air-to-air missile. What happened next is one of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea —...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On 3 July 1950, barely a week into the Korean War, Lieutenant JG Leonard Plog rolled his straight-winged jet onto the tail of a propeller-driven Yak-9 and squeezed the trigger. It was the first air-to-air kill ever scored by a US Navy jet, and it...
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