At dawn on August 27, 1939 — four days before Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began — test pilot Erich Warsitz climbed into a small, unremarkable-looking aircraft at the Heinkel airfield in Rostock-Marienehe and opened a throttle connected to an engine...
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas275 (tercero de todos los tiempos)Avión voladoBf 109GGuerrasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacido/fallecido el 10 de marzo de 1918 - 4 de octubre de 2009 (91 años)UnidadJG 52 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J16509, Günther Rall - a través de Wikimedia Commons Hay un detalle en...
At 7:25 PM on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg — 804 feet long, the largest aircraft ever built — caught fire while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. In 34 seconds, the largest flying object in history was a wreck on the...
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas301 (segundo de todos los tiempos)Avión voladoBf 109G, Fw 190GuerrasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacido/fallecido20 de marzo de 1919 - 8 de enero de 1983 (63 años)UnidadJG 52 5-Piloto-de-la-Luftwaffe-Major-Gerhard-Barkhorn-01 - vía Wikimedia Commons Él es el...
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island — a two-mile-long coral strip in the central Pacific, 2,556 miles away. They were on the longest and most dangerous leg of an around-the-world flight....
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas352 (récord de todos los tiempos, nunca superado)Avión voladoBf 109G/KWarcasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacido/fallecido el 19 de abril de 1922 - 20 de septiembre de 1993 (71 años)UnidadJG 52 Erich Hartmann voor zijn Bf 109 (G-6) - a través de Wikimedia Comunes doscientos...
On the evening of May 21, 1927, a single-engine monoplane appeared out of the darkness over Le Bourget airfield near Paris. The crowd waiting on the ground numbered 150,000 people — the largest gathering in French history to that point. When Charles Lindbergh stepped...
Share this story On October 6, 1971, an aircraft appeared over the Sinai Peninsula that no Israeli fighter could catch. It flew at Mach 3.2 — faster than a rifle bullet — at an altitude above 24,000 metres. Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept. They...
Datos rápidosNacionalidadEspañola 🇪🇸Victorias aéreas40 (mayor as, Guerra Civil Española)Aviones pilotadosFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CGuerrasGuerra Civil Española (Nacionalista)Nacimiento/Fallecimiento25 de abril de 1904 – 4 de abril de 1939 (34 años)UnidadGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — vía Wikimedia Commons La mayoría de...
Share this story Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and...
Share this story No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered...
Share this story There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a...
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