Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Thomas McGuire wrote the rule himself. Never take a P-38 into a turning fight at low altitude. He put it in a manual the Fifth Air Force distributed to its pilots. On 7 January 1945, at three hundred feet over Negros Island, he broke it deliberately, to pull a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Britain had been at war for three days. At quarter past six on the morning of 6 September 1939, a radar station on the Essex coast reported unidentified aircraft approaching at high altitude over West Mersea. There were no German aircraft. The plots were reflections...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence directorate,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is not how any of it...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets behind their seats....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 12 September 1958, the Soviet Union told the United States that it had found the wreck of an American aeroplane in Armenia, and that from the remains discovered there it might be assumed that six crewmen had perished. Seventeen men had been on board. A week later,...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For four years Ukraine has fought an air war essentially blind above a certain altitude, relying on ground-based radar that cannot see over the horizon and cannot move quickly when it is targeted. On 5 September the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence confirmed something...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast, imagery published by...
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