Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over the Nevada high desert, a young American fighter pilot rolls into a turn and sees something that should not exist. A stubby, silver dart is sliding into formation off his wing — snub nose, sharp delta, a red star where a national insignia ought to be....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a submarine, and was built, in all seriousness, to stalk and kill American nuclear missile boats. It...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Autumn, 1933. On a grass airfield outside Kharkiv, a shape rolls out of its hangar that looks less like an aeroplane and more like a building that has decided to fly. Its wing stretches 53 metres from tip to tip — thick enough for a grown man to walk inside it and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The first thing the crowd at Zhukovsky hears is the noise; the second thing it notices is that something is badly wrong with the wings. A dark, whale-nosed fighter comes howling low across the airfield, and its wings — unmistakably, impossibly — appear to have been...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Denmark has decided how it will watch the top of the world. On Jul. 7, 2026, the Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed a provisional decision to buy two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — long-range sub-hunters built to prowl the North Atlantic and the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Am 6. Juli 2026 drang ein neues Flugzeug in den tschechischen Luftraum ein: ein zweistrahliges, hochleitwerksiges Transportflugzeug in markantem dreifarbigem Grau, das auf dem letzten Abschnitt seines Fluges von zwei Saab JAS 39 Gripen eskortiert wurde. Der Neuzugang war die erste Embraer C-390 der tschechischen Luftwaffe.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The holidaymakers on Zakynthos came for the beaches. On the afternoon of Jul. 9, 2026, they got something else entirely: a single-seat fighter jet sliding down the runway on its belly, trailing sparks, then wrapped in flame as fire crews rushed to smother it. The...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Beim ersten Hören spürt man es, bevor man es versteht – ein tiefes, anschwellendes Heulen, das einem den Nacken hinaufkriecht und die Brust erschüttert, während ein riesiger dreieckiger Schatten über einen hinwegfegt. Für Generationen britischer Flugshow-Besucher bedeutete dieses Geräusch nur eines: die...
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