Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Some aeroplanes shout. The Percival Mew Gull whispered — a slip of a thing, barely twenty feet long, its wings not much wider than a family car, built almost entirely of wood and glue in a shed at Gravesend. You could have mistaken it for a toy. And yet, through...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Some aeroplanes are designed. The Lockheed Constellation looks like it was sculpted — by someone who had been told, sternly, that a machine carrying forty people across an ocean had no business being ugly. That curved, dolphin-backed fuselage. Those three tail...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On 24 May 1928, a silver airship called the Italia circled the top of the world. Below her lay the North Pole, and her crew dropped an Italian flag, a banner from Milan and a small wooden cross onto the endless white. It was a triumph. It should have been the story....
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over the Channel, in a slick of oil and cold grey swell, a fighter pilot is treading water and losing the argument with hypothermia. He hears it before he sees it: a slow, clattering drone, an aeroplane that looks less like it is flying and more like it is...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Am 21. März 1999 landeten zwei erschöpfte Männer mit einem riesigen silbernen Ballon in der ägyptischen Wüste und schrieben damit Geschichte. Bertrand Piccard und Brian Jones hatten geschafft, was Pioniere jahrzehntelang vergeblich versucht hatten: die Welt zu umrunden.
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Kein Motor. Kein Kerosin. Keine Rakete. Nur ein schlanker, weißer Segelflieger, dessen lange Flügel unsichtbare Aufwinde nutzten und höher stiegen als ein U-2-Spionageflugzeug in die eisige Schwärze der Stratosphäre. Im Jahr 2018 erreichte der motorlose Segelflieger Perlan 2 eine Höhe von 76.124 Fuß….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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