13+ hour, 7+ 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (677+ words) by Philippe | 9 avril 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments He was brash, self-promoting, possibly embellished his own record — and remains Canada's greatest military hero, with 72 confirmed aerial victories and a Victoria Cross that has been debated for a century. Billy…...

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   (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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (233+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 20 août 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire In June 1981, a young Israeli pilot flew the most exposed position in one of the most audacious air raids in history. Twenty-two years later, that same man carried a Torah…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (485+ words) par Connor Kerr | 23 juillet 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire It shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied fighter of the First World War — and it killed a horrifying number of the young men sent up to fly…...