Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed Iranian one-way attack...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in the Royal...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The A Shau valley, 10 March 1966. A Special Forces camp is being overrun by two thousand North Vietnamese regulars. The hills either side rise fifteen hundred feet and the cloud base is at eight hundred, which means any aircraft coming to help has to fly below the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer from Tennessee...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation “firsts” the way other...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion did something so...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Jahrelang konnte die indische Luftwaffe den Feind lange vor einem Angriff orten. Chinesische Kampfflugzeuge und Bordradargeräte tragen Raketen mit einer Reichweite von über 200 Kilometern; Indiens Su-30MKI-Flotte, die schlagkräftigste ihrer Art, verfügte über nichts Vergleichbares. Diese Lücke ist...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Am Nachmittag des 24. November 1971 betrat ein ruhiger Mann im Anzug den Schalter von Northwest Orient in Portland, Oregon, und bezahlte bar für ein One-Way-Ticket nach Seattle. Er gab seinen Namen als Dan Cooper an. Wenige Stunden später sollte er aus dem Hinterausgang eines...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1936 in Berlin nahm ein schottischer Teenager einen Jagdflieger aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg mit zu einem Flug. Nach der Landung sagte der Deutsche zu dem Jungen: „Lern fliegen und lern Deutsch.“ Der Junge tat beides – und flog später mehr verschiedene Flugzeuge als jeder andere Mensch.
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
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