19+ hour, 45+ min ago   (825+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 13, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments Britain came out of the Second World War with a captured German idea it did not fully understand. The delta wing promised high speed and a strong, light structure, and the…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago   (903+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 13, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1971 a Swiss fighter jet landed on a motorway. Not in an emergency — on purpose, as part of a doctrine that assumed Swiss airfields would be cratered within hours of a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (358+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 2, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Blenheim did not begin as a warplane. It began as "Britain First," a sleek twin-engine transport commissioned by press baron Lord Rothermere to shame the Air Ministry into modernising. When…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (443+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 2, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments When the Grumman X-29 stunned airshow crowds in the 1980s with wings that swept the wrong way, and again when Russia rolled out the Su-47 Berkut, both were hailed as radical leaps....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1156+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 1er septembre 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire In February 1938, inside a Berlin exhibition hall, a 25-year-old woman hovered a helicopter between the walls. Nobody had flown a helicopter indoors before. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 61 was the first genuinely…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (642+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Sep 1, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments At 3:58 on the afternoon of 29 May 1951, a red P-51 Mustang lifted off from Bardufoss in northern Norway with one man in it and no radio navigation aids ahead of him worth the…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (433+ words) por Tamika Johnson | 30 de agosto de 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comentarios The men who joined the most exclusive club in the world had all paid the same terrible entrance fee: they had been burned, often beyond recognition, in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (453+ words) von Tamika Johnson | Sep 1, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden | 0 Kommentare To understand twentieth-century flight, you have to reckon with her skill. To understand her, you have to hold that skill alongside the cause she chose to serve. Born in 1912, Reitsch fell for flying…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1252+ words) von Tamika Johnson | Sep 1, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare In February 1938, inside a Berlin exhibition hall, a 25-year-old woman hovered a helicopter between the walls. Nobody had flown a helicopter indoors before. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 61 was the first genuinely controllable…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (741+ words) par Connor Kerr | 21 juillet 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung…...