Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over the Nevada desert in the spring of 1966, a shape detached itself from the back of what appeared to be an impossibly stretched SR-71 Blackbird. For a fraction of a second, the shape hung in the slipstream like a remora leaving a shark — and then the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Im Inneren von MiGFlug
An einem klaren Wintertag im italienischen Aostatal rollte eine marineblaue L-39 Albatros mit zwei der bekanntesten deutschen Rapper an Bord in den Tandemcockpits unterhalb der schneebedeckten Alpen hervor. Die Kameras liefen – und die Aufnahmen, die sie einfingen ….
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
Seven hours into an ocean crossing, the airline passenger in 34C has lost all feeling in one leg, finished the bad movie, and is staring down a queue for the lavatory. A few thousand feet away, an Air Force pilot is doing the same crossing strapped into a single-seat...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Six miles above Budapest the air was forty degrees below zero, and the sky around the Flying Fortress named Mizpah had turned into a wall of black smoke and orange fire. It was 14 July 1944, and the flak over the Hungarian capital was the kind of fire that gunners on...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It sounds like the setup for a joke: what happens when a biplane from the 1920s fights jet fighters from the 1950s? The answer, it turns out, is that the biplane wins more often than anyone would like to admit. During the Korean War, North Korean pilots flying...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
In September 1949, the largest land-based aircraft in the world took to the skies over southwest England. The Bristol Brabazon was a colossus — its 230-foot wingspan exceeded that of a modern Boeing 747. It was powered by eight radial engines coupled in pairs to drive...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On April 25, 1982, a collection of British helicopters did something that hadn’t been done since World War II: they put a submarine out of action from the air. The target was ARA Santa Fe, an Argentine submarine caught on the surface near South Georgia Island...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On August 17, 1943, the United States Eighth Air Force launched what would become one of the most devastating bombing missions in the history of aerial warfare. The target was Germany’s ball bearing industry — a chokepoint that Allied planners believed could...
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