Share this story At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service...
Share this story At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed...
Share this story A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the...
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Am Donnerstag, dem 3. September 2026, gegen sieben Uhr morgens, feuerte in dem Dorf Probuzhdeniye am Rande von Engels in der russischen Region Saratow ein Mann auf einem Motorrad, dessen Gesicht von einem Helm verdeckt war, zwei Pistolenschüsse auf einen Soldaten ab, dann...
Teile diese Geschichte! Wer die Schallmauer durchbrach, aß umsonst. Das war das Standardangebot in einer Bar in der Mojave-Wüste, die von einer Frau geführt wurde, die einst den Weltrekord im Frauen-Flugsport hielt, Kunstflüge für Howard Hughes absolvierte und Mexiko auf einem als … verkleideten Esel durchquerte.
Teilen Sie diese Geschichte: Als Amy Johnson am 5. Mai 1930 in Croydon mit Ziel Australien startete, besaß sie erst seit zehn Monaten eine Pilotenlizenz und war noch nie weiter als von London nach Hull geflogen. Ihr Flugzeug war eine gebrauchte de Havilland Gipsy Moth mit offenem Cockpit….
Share this story She would climb to around four thousand metres, roll the Stuka onto its back, and put it into a near-vertical dive to test the brakes and the sight she had helped design. Then she would do it again. On a good day, fifteen times. Melitta von...
Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Share this story On the night of 30 March 1944, RAF Bomber Command sent 795 heavy bombers to Nuremberg. Ninety-six of them never came home. In a single night, in a few hours over Germany, more than 500 young airmen were killed — the worst night the Command...
Share this story On the morning of 21 March 1945, twenty de Havilland Mosquitos came in over Copenhagen at rooftop height, so low that Danes on the streets could see the crews’ faces. Their target was the Shellhus — the Gestapo’s headquarters in the...
Share this story Late in the afternoon of April 18, 1943 — Palm Sunday — a wall of German transport planes crawled north-east across the Mediterranean at wavetop height, so low their propellers kicked spray off the swells. There were about ninety of them,...
Share this story A French-built fighter took on fuel from a Chinese tanker over Egypt this week — and in doing so quietly rewrote a small piece of the aerial map. It is, as far as anyone can tell, the first time a Chinese Y-20 tanker has been publicly documented...
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