Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Am Morgen des 5. Juni 1967, um Viertel vor acht, wechselten die ägyptischen Luftverteidigungsoffiziere ihre Schichten, die Morgenpatrouille war gelandet, und Hunderte sowjetischer Jagdflugzeuge standen in ordentlichen Reihen auf achtzehn Flugplätzen. Innerhalb von etwa drei Stunden waren die meisten von ihnen...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Kurz vor Mitternacht am 1. Juli 2002 näherten sich zwei Flugzeuge in 11.000 Metern Höhe über dem Bodensee. Bei dem einen handelte es sich um eine Boeing 757 Frachtmaschine der DHL, die mit zwei Piloten an Bord aus Bergamo gestartet war. Das andere Flugzeug war eine Tupolew Tu-154 der Baschkirischen Fluggesellschaft mit 69 Personen an Bord, die von Moskau nach … unterwegs war.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air Wing 8 recovered at...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the history of fighter aircraft, almost nobody remembers the runner-up. The jet that loses the competition gets a museum plaque, if it is lucky, and the winner gets the production line. The Northrop YF-17 Cobra is the great exception. It lost — and then went on to...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
There are big aircraft, and then there was the Mriya. Stand under a Boeing 747 and you feel small. Stand under an An-225 and the 747 starts to look like the small one. For 33 years exactly one of these machines existed — a six-engined Soviet giant built for a single,...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico Piaggio walked...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2 bomber. The...
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