Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The aircraft that worries American air base commanders most in 2026 is not a Chinese stealth fighter or a Russian bomber. It is a battery-powered quadcopter that costs less than a used laptop, and there is nothing to stop a hostile one from buzzing the fence line of a...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in 1962. The newest...
Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Fréjus, on the Côte d’Azur, 23 September 1913, 5:47 in the morning. The sea is still grey, the air smells of salt and the burnt castor oil that every rotary engine of the era coughs over its pilot. A small, dark-eyed man settles into a Morane-Saulnier G — a...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Gate 15 am John F. Kennedy International Airport, kurz nach Mitternacht am letzten Augusttag des Jahres 1983. Eine Boeing 747 steht im Flutlicht, die Türen sind geöffnet, während 246 Passagiere einsteigen: Geschäftsleute mit Ziel Taipeh und Hongkong, Flitterwöchner, Großeltern ….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Kurz vor Mitternacht am 1. Juli 2002 näherten sich zwei Flugzeuge in 11.000 Metern Höhe über dem Bodensee. Bei dem einen handelte es sich um eine Boeing 757 Frachtmaschine der DHL, die mit zwei Piloten an Bord aus Bergamo gestartet war. Das andere Flugzeug war eine Tupolew Tu-154 der Baschkirischen Fluggesellschaft mit 69 Personen an Bord, die von Moskau nach … unterwegs war.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky, foreign parachutists...
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