Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Diese Geschichte teilen: Frank Kendall, der von Juli 2021 bis Januar 2025 als US-Luftwaffenminister amtierte, argumentierte Anfang September 2026 drei Tage lang an drei verschiedenen Stellen gleich: in einem Meinungsbeitrag in der New York Times am 1. September, in einem Interview auf...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story On 2 June 1944, B-17s of the Fifteenth Air Force bombed marshalling yards in Hungary and then kept going east. They landed in Ukraine, at three Soviet airfields the Red Army had handed over to the Americans. It was the first time in the war that a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story The runway at RAF Lyneham on the morning of 22 July 1966 held one of the least likely aeroplanes in Britain: a Lightning interceptor with no canopy, a disarmed ejection seat, its undercarriage pinned down, and a man in the cockpit who was wearing no...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story In the autumn of 1980, American engineers strapped thirty rockets to a C-130 Hercules. The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 November 1971, a quiet man in a business suit walked up to the Northwest Orient counter in Portland, Oregon, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle. He gave his name as Dan Cooper. A few hours later he would step out of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Das wichtigste Dokument in der Geschichte der Tarnkappenflugzeuge wurde weder in Kalifornien noch auf einem geheimen Flugplatz in der Wüste verfasst. Es entstand in Moskau, auf Russisch, von einem sowjetischen Physiker – und die Sowjetunion ließ es ins Ausland gelangen, weil sie die Arbeit für irrelevant hielt.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Share this story For months, Europe’s most ambitious fighter programme had a hole in the middle of it: the money. On July 3, 2026, that hole was filled. The United Kingdom, Italy and Japan signed a £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion) contract to push their sixth-generation...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Share this story Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines,...
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