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...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Die meisten Kampfpiloten durchlaufen denselben schmalen Grat: Flugschule, Offizierspatent, Cockpit – noch bevor sie alt genug sind, um ohne Aufpreis ein Auto zu mieten. Kenneth Gilmore hingegen durchlief ein Footballprogramm. Bevor er jemals G-Kräfte aushalten musste, entwarf er Spielzüge auf einem...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For a week in the summer of 1976, more than a hundred people sat on the floor of a disused airport terminal in the heart of Africa, four thousand kilometres from home, and waited to find out whether they would be murdered. They had been separated — Israelis and Jews...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Gate 15 am John F. Kennedy International Airport, kurz nach Mitternacht am letzten Augusttag des Jahres 1983. Eine Boeing 747 steht im Flutlicht, die Türen sind geöffnet, während 246 Passagiere einsteigen: Geschäftsleute mit Ziel Taipeh und Hongkong, Flitterwöchner, Großeltern ….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky, foreign parachutists...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Sirenen heulten noch vor Sonnenaufgang. In Manamas Altstadtvierteln und entlang der Hochhäuser am Wasser in Kuwait-Stadt riss dasselbe anschwellende Heulen, das die Bewohner der Golfregion in diesem Jahr schon auswendig kennen, die Familien in den frühen Morgenstunden des Mittwochs aus dem Bett und in die Treppenhäuser….
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a summer day in 1965, workers and fishermen along the Ob River near Novosibirsk heard a scream of jet engines and looked up just in time to see something their minds could barely accept: a MiG-17 fighter, flashing low over the water — and then vanishing under the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On a spring morning in May 2026, a big blue Grumman Avenger lifted off over Hamilton, Ontario, and climbed into the sky for the first time in decades. In the cockpit was pilot James Bradley. Watching from the ground was a small group of people who had spent seventeen...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On the morning of Saturday, 27 October 1962, Major Rudolf “Rudy” Anderson Jr. was sealed into his pressure suit at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. He was not on the schedule that day — he had lobbied hard for the mission. It would be his sixth flight over...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
On 27 February 1959, three British oilmen were driving across a gravel plain deep in the Libyan Sahara, hundreds of miles from anything, when a twin-tailed shape rose out of the heat shimmer. It was an American heavy bomber, broken in two just behind the wings, lying...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
The thermometer read over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd on the National Mall had been baking since morning, and somewhere above the haze four F-5 Tigers were pulling into formation. One of them was flown by the administrator of NASA himself. It was 1:14 p.m. on...
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