Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 31 July 1944, a twin-boomed Lightning climbed away from a dusty airfield on Corsica and turned north toward occupied France. At the controls was a 44-year-old French pilot who was really too old, too battered and too famous to be flying combat missions at all. He...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Polens Tarnkappenjäger war bisher ein amerikanisches Exportprodukt – gebaut in Fort Worth, Texas, und über den Atlantik geflogen. Diese Woche änderte sich das. Die erste in Europa montierte polnische F-35A wurde in Leonardos Endmontagelinie im italienischen Cameri fertiggestellt.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Die Enthüllung erfolgte ohne Überflug, ohne das Dröhnen des Nachbrenners. Am zweiten Tag der Farnborough International Airshow enthüllte BAE Systems ein mattgraues, schwanzloses Flugzeug von etwa der Größe eines Hawk-Trainers und präsentierte Großbritannien damit sein erstes eigenes Flugzeug.
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Jakarta went shopping for a frontline fighter and came home, instead, with a very clever trainer that shoots back.At Farnborough on 21 July, Leonardo and its Indonesian partner PT ESystem Solutions signed a contract with Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence for 12...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Australia built the Ghost Bat. Europe, it turns out, has been quietly helping all along — and at Farnborough, Boeing finally said so out loud.On 21 July, MQ-28 Program Global Director Glen Ferguson confirmed that Italy’s Leonardo has become an official...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Militarily, Suez worked. In six days, Anglo-French air power destroyed the Egyptian Air Force largely on the ground, paratroops took an airfield, Royal Marines made the first helicopter assault in the history of warfare, and the invasion force held the northern end of...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
On the morning of 16 July, two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoons met in European airspace and took fuel from a French A330 Phenix tanker. No weapons were carried. The manoeuvres were unremarkable. Any air force in NATO does this on a quiet Tuesday....
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly recorded it as the first...
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