Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die US-Luftwaffe hat stillschweigend eine der ambitioniertesten Waffenanforderungen der jüngeren Vergangenheit fallen gelassen: die Entwicklung einer neuen Luft-Luft-Rakete, die Ziele in einer Entfernung von mindestens 1.000 Seemeilen – umgerechnet etwa 1.150 Meilen – bekämpfen kann. Das entspricht ungefähr zehn...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is a grey morning at Bremen, late in the summer of 1971. On the concrete apron stands a stubby, hunched little jet, its camouflage still factory-fresh, the marking VAK 191 B painted along the nose. Three engines spool up at once and the noise is physically violent...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600 km/h (around 370...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men servicing its engines...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it does, the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a freezing afternoon in May 1942, on a frozen lake near the Ural town of Bilimbay, a stubby green aeroplane the size of a fighter trainer crouched on the snow. It carried no propeller. In its tail sat a steel chamber fed by red fuming nitric acid and kerosene...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of 17 March 1947, two test pilots lifted a four-engined jet off the hard-packed lakebed at Muroc, in the California high desert, and into a clear blue sky. The aircraft was ungainly, slab-sided, and unmistakably a product of the piston age with...
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