Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Ask which fighter the RAF prized most in the last year of the Second World War and most people will say the Spitfire. They would be wrong. The aircraft that its pilots rated above all others — faster on the deck than a Spitfire, deadlier against the V-1, and one...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Ask anyone to name Britain’s heavy bomber of the Second World War and they will say the Avro Lancaster — the Dam Busters’ mount, the star of every film and airshow flypast. Almost nobody says Handley Page Halifax. Yet the Halifax flew tens of...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Most warplanes are lucky to see one war. The Douglas A-26 Invader saw three — World War II, Korea and Vietnam — the only American bomber ever to do so. Now one of these remarkable survivors has a new home: the Stockton Field Aviation Museum in...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Imagine buying an airline ticket and being shown not to a seat in the fuselage, but into the wing itself — a little cabin built into the leading edge, with a big curved window giving you the pilot’s own view of the world rushing toward you. That was the...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
It looked like a four-poster bed welded out of scaffolding, and it flew by balancing on a column of jet blast. When the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig lurched into the air at Hucknall in 1954, it became the first jet-lift aircraft to fly anywhere in the world...
Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt
Somewhere over Germany in the last winter of the war, four P-51 Mustangs slid in behind a lone, unfamiliar fighter and prepared to pounce. The pilot did not turn to dogfight. He pushed the throttle to the stop, triggered a chemical boost that shoved extra horsepower...
Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht
A stealth fighter’s first taxi run is not glamorous. It rolls out of the hangar, creeps down the taxiway under its own power, and stops. But for Turkey, the sight of its second Kaan prototype trundling along the apron at Ankara on Jul. 31, 2026 was a big deal...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Anfang der 1960er-Jahre beherrschten zwei amerikanische Giganten das Jetzeitalter: Boeings 707 und die Douglas DC-8. Convair, eine Tochtergesellschaft von General Dynamics, erkannte, dass man sie nicht in der Größe übertreffen konnte – also versuchte man, sie mit kürzerer Geschwindigkeit zu überflügeln. Das Ergebnis war die Convair 990 Coronado: ein elegantes...
Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden
Am Nachmittag des 24. Mai 1988 schlängelte sich eine fast neue Boeing 737-300 im Anflug auf New Orleans zwischen Gewitterzellen hindurch. Auf dem linken Sitz saß Kapitän Carlos Dárdano – 29 Jahre alt, und er flog mit nur einem Auge; das andere hatte er durch Beschuss verloren.
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