Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The deck crew on USS Hancock froze as the Cutlass approached from astern, its twin vertical fins silhouetted against a Pacific sunset in the summer of 1955. Lieutenant Commander Jay Alkire lined up his approach, but the underpowered Westinghouse engines couldn’t...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Two hours into a surveillance mission over Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Kevin Henry felt it begin. A tingling in his joints. A creeping confusion behind his eyes. Then the nausea hit — sudden, violent, disorienting. At 70,000 feet in a Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady, the nitrogen...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Imagine strapping yourself to a platform no larger than a manhole cover, powered by counter-rotating helicopter blades spinning beneath your feet, with nothing between you and the ground but air and optimism. Now imagine the U.S. Army telling you that any soldier...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
The model sat in a cavernous hangar in Seattle, gleaming under fluorescent lights like a promise made in aluminum. It was 1969, and Boeing had built a full-sized mockup of the 2707 — America’s supersonic transport, 306 feet long, with a drooped nose borrowed...
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
On a clear winter day in Italy’s Aosta Valley, a navy-blue L-39 Albatros taxied out beneath the snow-capped Alps with two of Germany’s most famous rappers strapped into its tandem cockpits. The cameras were rolling – and the footage they captured...
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...
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