Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Dawn over Kadena, and the concrete is already trembling. Two Pratt & Whitney turbofans spool up behind a jet the size of a small barn, the pilot walks the throttles into afterburner, and for a heartbeat the whole world is noise. Then the nose comes up — and keeps...
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
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...
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...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Es ist womöglich das schönste Flugzeug, das die US-Marine je zur See geschickt hat: lang, unglaublich elegant, mit Doppelleitwerk und gebaut, um mit doppelter Schallgeschwindigkeit von einem Flugzeugträger zu starten. Die North American A-5 Vigilante wirkte, als käme sie direkt aus einer längst vergangenen Zeit...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the first months of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi Zero was a nightmare. It could out-climb, out-turn and out-accelerate the stubby Grumman Wildcats the U.S. Navy sent against it, and American pilots who tried to fight it on its own terms — twisting, turning,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line — it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England — but because almost every ally in between refused to let the aircraft...
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