Luftfahrtwelt, Militärische Luftfahrt
From the air it looks like a filing system for aeroplanes. Row upon row of them, wingtip to wingtip, laid out across ten square kilometres of Arizona desert in lines so straight they look drawn. Bombers here. Fighters there. Transports over there. Around four thousand...
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
For twenty years, the Western answer to Chinese air power was simple: our jets are better. The F-22 and F-35 out-sense, out-stealth and out-network anything Beijing could field. That may still be true of any single aircraft. It may also be about to stop mattering....
Im Inneren von MiGFlug, Nachricht
Irgendwo über der Küste Floridas, mit über tausend Meilen pro Stunde, packte ein Mann mit Sauerstoffhelm ein Cheesesteak aus, biss hinein und verzog das Gesicht – eine Grimasse, die man sonst nur in Achterbahnen sieht. Offenbar ist das heutzutage nötig, um ein Sandwich zu verkaufen ….
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Fifty years ago today — on 1 July 1976 — the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum opened its doors on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was a bicentennial gift to a nation that had just landed men on the Moon, won a Space Race, and built an...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It is approaching eleven o’clock on the night of 11 November 1940, and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth “Hooch” Williamson is pushing his Fairey Swordfish down through the flak over Taranto harbour. Magnesium flares hang in the sky, throwing the anchored...
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