Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is the middle of the night somewhere over the Norwegian Sea, and a four-engine turboprop is flying low and slow above the black water. Inside, a Navy flight officer hunches over a screen, watching a pattern of floating microphones he has just seeded across the...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
It is just before dawn on 17 April 1944, and a sleek, triple-tailed airliner is rolling down the runway at Lockheed’s Burbank field. In the left seat, hands on the controls, sits one of the most famous men in America: Howard Hughes — aviator, tycoon, and...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is 7 March 1964, and the desert south of Cairo shimmers in the morning heat. On the runway at Helwan sits a tiny, needle-nosed delta-wing jet, barely bigger than a sports car with wings. An Egyptian test pilot runs the engine up, releases the brakes, and the little...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Ein graues Kriegsschiff, länger als drei Fußballfelder, dampft durch den Pazifik, und Tarnkappenjäger landen auf seinem Deck. Für die meisten Marinen wäre das nichts Ungewöhnliches. Für Japan ist es beinahe historisch – denn achtzig Jahre lang beharrte Japan darauf, dass….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
At 11,000 feet over the wooded hills north of New York City, on a grey December afternoon, two airliners that were never supposed to meet found themselves on a converging path. Within seconds the tip of a Boeing 707’s left wing sliced through the triple tail of...
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