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6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (883+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 15, 2026 | Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments The most uncomfortable finding of the whole Ramstein investigation is also the simplest. Nobody broke a rule. Place: Ramstein Air Base, Rhineland-Palatinate, at the USAFE open day “Flugtag…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (852+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 15, 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comments On 23 December 1942 a very large four-engined aeroplane with a glazed nose and twin fins lifted off from Augsburg. It had bunk beds in the fuselage and a galley with hot…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (803+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 15, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant could carry an 88 mm gun and its tractor, or a medium tank, or two hundred equipped soldiers. Its cargo hold was deliberately sized to match a German…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (654+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 15, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments What KG 200 actually did was stranger, better documented, and in places considerably more sinister. Formed: 20 February 1944 at Berlin-Gatow, out of the Versuchsverband ObdL Disbanded: 25 April 1945 Commanders: Oberst Heinz Heigl (Feb to…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (458+ words) by Connor Kerr | 28. Mai 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments Bezogen auf: Myasishchev 3M (development of M-4 Molot / NATO "Bison") Erster Flug: 29 April 1981 — with external cargo, 6 January 1982 Max external payload: 50 tonnes Total Baikonur missions: ~150 Ersetzt durch: Antonov An-225 Mriya (1988) Erhaltene Flugzeugzellen: 2 (Zhukovsky…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (474+ words) by Fortuna Leroy | 7 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 comments The Valiant is the least glamorous of Britain’s three V-bombers. It is also the one that did the most, first. It worked exactly as intended. The Valiant flew in 1951 and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (833+ words) by Connor Kerr | 5. Juni 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 commentsTeile diese Geschichte The evening before, Sieber had written his will, leaving everything to his fiancée. Sixteen years before Yuri Gagarin, he was about to become the first human being to take…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1019+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Sep 14, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes | 0 comments In February 1943 a German evaluation commission arrived at the Italian flight test centre at Guidonia with an Fw 190A-5 and a Bf 109G-4, and spent several weeks flying them against three…...

2+ week, 3+ 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, 1+ day 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…...