Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Late in the afternoon of 7 June 1981, eight Israeli F-16s are skimming the desert at rooftop height, fuel gauges a constant worry. Flying the last and most exposed aircraft in the formation is the youngest of them, a 27-year-old named Ilan Ramon, who has done the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is a little after dawn on 15 August 1945, and a flight of Grumman F6F Hellcats is droning north over the haze of Tokyo Bay. In the cockpits are young U.S. Navy pilots of Air Group 88, launched from the carrier USS Yorktown to strike airfields near the Japanese...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the night of 11 November 1940, twenty-one Fairey Swordfish biplanes — fabric-covered, open-cockpit torpedo bombers with a top speed of 139 miles per hour — attacked the Italian fleet at anchor in Taranto harbour. When they were done, three battleships were sinking,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
We have written before about the F-8 Crusader’s legendary status as the “Last of the Gunfighters” — the Navy jet that went to war over Vietnam armed primarily with four 20 mm Colt Mk 12 cannon when every other fighter in the fleet was transitioning...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Als am 24. Juni zwei Erdbeben den Norden Venezuelas erschütterten – ein Vorbeben der Stärke 7,2, gefolgt 39 Sekunden später von einem verheerenden Hauptbeben der Stärke 7,5 – brach die fragile Infrastruktur des Landes innerhalb von Minuten zusammen. In Caracas wurden Gebäude in sich zusammengestürzt.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is just after ten in the morning on 19 June 1944, and Lieutenant (junior grade) Alexander Vraciu is hanging in the blue over the Philippine Sea, hood back, oxygen mask tight, hunting. Below and ahead of his Grumman F6F Hellcat, a loose gaggle of Japanese dive...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is mid-morning on 8 June 2026 at Ellington Field in Houston, and Harry “D-Day” Daye is strapping into a machine that has not left the ground in seven years. The ramp smells of jet fuel and Texas heat. Behind him sits Jerod Flohr, one of the volunteers who spent the...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Es ist Samstagmorgen über dem Ostmeer, und auf einem koreanischen Radarschirm erscheinen früh die ersten Signale – eine Gruppe von mehr als zehn Militärflugzeugen, chinesischen und russischen, die sich nacheinander dem Rand des koreanischen Überwachungsbereichs nähern. In einem Luftoperationszentrum...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of 2 September 1958, a four-engined transport drones eastward through the clear sky near the Turkish-Soviet border. To anyone who glanced up, it is just a C-130 Hercules — an unglamorous cargo hauler. It is not. Tail number 60528 is packed with...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On the morning of 28 June 1939, twenty-two extraordinarily lucky people walked down a pier at Port Washington on Long Island and climbed aboard what looked like an ocean liner with wings. Captain R.O.D. Sullivan ran up the four big engines, and the Boeing 314 flying...
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