Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is 0200 hours in the Eastern Mediterranean. The flight deck of USS Gerald R. Ford smells faintly of jet fuel and seawater. A yellow-shirted Air Boss raises an arm. Three hundred feet of catapult — not steam, not for the first time in U.S. naval aviation history,...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
By 1939 the biplane was supposed to be finished. Monoplane fighters — the Bf 109, the Spitfire, the Hurricane — were establishing what air combat in World War II would look like. And yet the Soviet Union was, that same year, accepting deliveries of a new biplane...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In 1960 the Convair B-58 Hustler was, by every measurable standard, the most advanced combat aircraft on Earth. It could sustain Mach 2 — a speed contemporary fighters could reach only in short dashes. It carried a thermonuclear weapon in a detachable streamlined pod...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is the kind of idea that should never have left the napkin. Take a small tank, weighing roughly 5.5 tonnes. Bolt on a biplane-style wing and a twin-boom tail. Tow the assembly into the air behind a heavy bomber. Cast it off over enemy lines. Let the tank glide...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Im Inneren von MiGFlug
Vor den Raketen. Bevor Elektroautos zum Standard wurden. Vor dem Mars, vor den Tunneln, vor den sozialen Medien – da war ein junger südafrikanischer Unternehmer in der Wüste Nevadas, angeschnallt im Cockpit eines Jets aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges, grinste breit unter einem...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
There is a shipping container somewhere in the world right now that does not look like much. Steel box. Corner castings. Maybe a dent or two from a rough crossing. You have seen a million of them stacked at ports, rolling down highways on flatbeds, rusting in fields....
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive — as if physics...
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