Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Monatelang klaffte in Europas ambitioniertestem Kampfflugzeugprogramm eine Lücke: die Finanzierung. Am 3. Juli 2026 wurde diese Lücke geschlossen. Großbritannien, Italien und Japan unterzeichneten einen Vertrag über 4,6 Milliarden Pfund (6,1 Milliarden US-Dollar), um die Entwicklung ihres Kampfflugzeugs der sechsten Generation voranzutreiben.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
It is 107 degrees on the range tower at Gila Bend, and a photographer is shielding his camera in the shade between passes so it will not overheat. Then the sound arrives — that unmistakable, chest-rattling BRRRT — and an A-10C Thunderbolt II drops out of the Arizona...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward the vertical until...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in half, tore the...
Im Inneren von MiGFlug, Nachricht
Irgendwo über der Küste Floridas, mit über tausend Meilen pro Stunde, packte ein Mann mit Sauerstoffhelm ein Cheesesteak aus, biss hinein und verzog das Gesicht – eine Grimasse, die man sonst nur in Achterbahnen sieht. Offenbar ist das heutzutage nötig, um ein Sandwich zu verkaufen ….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 7 August 1942, over an island the Americans had invaded that very morning, a .30-calibre bullet passed through Saburō Sakai’s skull. It blinded his right eye and paralysed his left side. He was 560 nautical miles from home, alone, at war, in a fighter with no...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four rebuilt engines ran sweetly. Half a century of Arctic exile was about to...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines, close, and getting...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of 16 August 1966, an Iraqi Air Force captain named Munir Redfa strapped into his MiG-21F-13 for what his squadron believed was a routine long-range training sortie. He had full fuel tanks — a privilege he had rarely been granted — and a...
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