Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
The de Havilland Comet was the most beautiful airliner ever built. It was also the most deadly — and its failures saved more lives than any single aircraft in history. We’ve written about the Comet before — see our earlier piece on its legacy. This article...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the late 1950s, both superpowers reached the same conclusion: the future of strategic bombing was speed. Build a bomber that flies at Mach 3 and nothing can catch it. No interceptor, no missile, no air defence system could touch an aircraft crossing the sky at...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At ILA Berlin, Airbus pulled the covers off a long, dark shape with knife-thin wings and no cockpit — and gave Europe its clearest look yet at the robot fighter it wants to send to war alongside its pilots. The aircraft is the U-760 Ravenstorm, an uncrewed...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It has no tail, three engines, and a planform like a stingray crossed with a stealth bomber. It is the most radical-looking combat aircraft on Earth — and it is Chinese. Grainy photographs of Chengdu’s tailless giant, widely dubbed the J-36, keep leaking out of China,...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 14 December 1986, a spindly aircraft made almost entirely of paper, glue, and carbon fibre wobbled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base with so much fuel aboard that its wingtips dragged on the concrete, damaging the winglets. Nine days, three minutes, and 44...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
No aircraft in American history has been hated, redeemed, and mourned quite like the F-111 Aardvark. Born from Robert McNamara’s disastrous TFX programme — an attempt to force the Air Force and Navy to share a single airframe — it arrived overweight, overpriced,...
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