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Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works and the SR-71
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (511+ words) von Connor Kerr | 23. Juli 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare What set him apart was an almost physical intuition for aerodynamics. He could estimate by eye what other engineers reached only after days of calculation. His chief engineer, Hall Hibbard, put…...
RIAT 2026 Cancelled: Real Bombers Took Over Fairford
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (770+ words) par Fortuné Leroy | 4 juillet 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles | 0 commentaire Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the…...
Fairey Gannet: The Contra-Rotating Sub-Hunter
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (511+ words) di Connor Kerr | 24 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Head-on, the Fairey Gannet looked like something a committee had argued about and lost. A deep, humpbacked fuselage, a chin full of radar, and a nose crowded with eight spinning…...
Messerschmitt: From the Bf 109 to Airbus
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (698+ words) by Max Grünwald | Jul 8, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had…...
XF-91 Thunderceptor: The Fighter With Backwards Wings
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (922+ words) par Connor Kerr | 23 juin 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire This is the story of an interceptor built to do one job — get up high, very fast, and ruin a Soviet bomber's morning — and the brilliant, bizarre engineering Republic threw…...
Tex Johnston: The Pilot Who Barrel-Rolled the Boeing 707
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (315+ words) by MiGFlug Team | May 21, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments What Boeing’s president did not authorize was a barrel roll. Test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing 367-80 — the prototype of the 707 — on 7 August 1955. He did it over Lake Washington in…...
Gloster E.28/39: Britain???s First Jet Aircraft
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1076+ words) von Connor Kerr | Aug 26, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare At about twenty to eight on the evening of 15 May 1941, after a day of weather bad enough to keep everyone waiting, a small silver aeroplane with no propeller took off from…...
Bartini VVA-14: The Soviet UFO Sub-Hunter
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1002+ words) di Connor Kerr | 10 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a…...
Bell 47: The First Certified Civil Helicopter
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (919+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 26, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends | 0 comments It was also the first helicopter in the world that a civilian could legally buy and fly, and it was designed by a man who spent twelve years alone on a…...
Antonov An-2: The Stall Speed Myth
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (920+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 26, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends | 0 comments Everybody who knows anything about the Antonov An-2 knows the same thing about it: that the flight manual has no stall speed, and that if the engine quits you simply hold…...