Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On October 24, 2003, British Airways flight BA002 touched down at London Heathrow for the last time. As it taxied in, the crew made an announcement: this was Concorde’s final commercial flight. The passengers — who had each paid around £8,000 for a seat — stood...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Kurze FaktenNationalitätDeutsch 🇩🇪Luftsiege158 (151 allein in Nordafrika)Flugzeuge geflogenBf 109E/FKriegeZweiter Weltkrieg (Nordafrika)Geboren / gestorben13. Dezember 1919 – 30. September 1942 (Alter 22)EinheitJG 27 Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2006-0122, Hans-Joachim Marseille – via Wikimedia Commons...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The standard defensive manoeuvre for an SR-71 Blackbird when it detected a surface-to-air missile launch was simple: accelerate. At Mach 3.3 and 85,000 feet, acceleration was sufficient. No SR-71 was ever shot down. In over 3,500 operational missions, spanning 24...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Kurzinfo: Nationalität: Österreichisch/Deutsch 🇦🇹 Luftsiege: 258 (davon 3 in der Me 262) Geflogene Flugzeuge: Fw 190A, Bf 109, Me 262 (erster Düsenjäger-Ass) Kriege: Zweiter Weltkrieg Geboren/Gestorben: 7. Dez. 1920 – 8. Nov. 1944 (23 Jahre) Einheit: JG 54, Kommando Nowotny Walter Nowotny (Porträt) — via Wikimedia...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the evening of October 12, 1947, test pilot Chuck Yeager went horse riding in the Mojave Desert and fell off, breaking two ribs. Two days later, in severe pain and with his ribs tightly taped, he crawled into the cockpit of a Bell X-1 rocket plane, used a sawed-off...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Kurzinfo: Nationalität: Deutsch 🇩🇪 Luftsiege: 267 (4. Platz aller Zeiten) Geflogene Flugzeuge: Fw 190A, Bf 109G Kriege: Zweiter Weltkrieg (Ostfront) Geboren/Gestorben: 21. Februar 1917 – 14. Februar 1945 (27 Jahre) Einheit: JG 54 “Grünherz”, Norwegen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Deutsche Uniformen, Luftwaffe, Polarflieger, Pilot, Feuerwehrmann...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Kurze FaktenNationalitätDeutsch 🇩🇪Luftsiege275 (3. aller Zeiten)Flugzeuge geflogenBf 109GKriegeZweiter Weltkrieg (Ostfront)Geboren / gestorben10. März 1918 – 4. Oktober 2009 (Alter 91)EinheitJG 52 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J16509, Günther Rall – über Wikimedia Commons Es gibt ein Detail In...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Kurze FaktenNationalitätDeutsch 🇩🇪Luftsiege301 (2. aller Zeiten)Flugzeuge geflogenBf 109G, Fw 190KriegeZweiter Weltkrieg (Ostfront)Geboren / gestorben20. März 1919 – 8. Januar 1983 (Alter 63)EinheitJG 52 5-Luftwaffe-Pilot-Major-Gerhard-Barkhorn-01 – via Wikimedia Commons Er ist der...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
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...
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