Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas DC-8 — the same...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
In the autumn of 1980, American engineers strapped thirty rockets to a C-130 Hercules. The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load fifty-two American...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Am Nachmittag des 24. November 1971 betrat ein ruhiger Mann im Anzug den Schalter von Northwest Orient in Portland, Oregon, und bezahlte bar für ein One-Way-Ticket nach Seattle. Er gab seinen Namen als Dan Cooper an. Wenige Stunden später sollte er aus dem Hinterausgang eines...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
The most important document in the history of stealth aircraft was not written in California or at a secret desert airfield. It was written in Moscow, in Russian, by a Soviet physicist — and the Soviet Union let it go abroad because it decided the work was of no...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
Monatelang klaffte in Europas ambitioniertestem Kampfflugzeugprogramm eine Lücke: die Finanzierung. Am 3. Juli 2026 wurde diese Lücke geschlossen. Großbritannien, Italien und Japan unterzeichneten einen Vertrag über 4,6 Milliarden Pfund (6,1 Milliarden US-Dollar), um die Entwicklung ihres Kampfflugzeugs der sechsten Generation voranzutreiben.
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines, close, and getting...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
For three decades during the Cold War, Britain’s nuclear deterrent rested on the wings of three extraordinary aircraft: the Vickers Valiant, the Avro Vulcan, and the Handley Page Victor. Known collectively as the V-bombers, they were designed to carry atomic and...
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