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1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1102+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Sep 20, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 6 November 1943, over the Soviet counter-offensive that became the Battle of Kiev, a German fighter pilot logged thirteen aerial victories between 13:00 and 13:17. Eight Yak-7s and five Yak-9s. Seventeen minutes. The pilot…...

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   (806+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 15, 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comments A submarine on the surface can see about five nautical miles. That is not a technology problem, it is a geometry problem: the lookout’s eyes are roughly five metres above…...

1+ week, 4+ 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   (1407+ words) by Team MiGFlug | Aug 25, 2015 | aerei da combattimento, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 11 comments During the Cold War the Finnish Air Force operated a deliberately mixed fleet to balance East and West, including Soviet MiG-15 and MiG-21 fighters plus British, Swedish,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (152+ words) DW.com Switzerland — where to build? A glacier collapse that destroyed much of the Swiss village of Blatten in 2025 has intensified a difficult debate in the Alps: rebuild or retreat? While scientists warn that thawing block glaciers and unstable mountain…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (412+ words) Mirage News The great flood that devastated Europe in 1342 and which for centuries was considered a single catastrophic event was, in fact, the most prominent manifestation of an exceptional sequence of 16 major floods that occurred between 1342 and 1343. This is one…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (457+ words) di Connor Kerr | 19 giugno 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti In a refrigerated room hidden beneath London’s Smithfield Meat Market in 1943, behind a screen of hanging animal carcasses, a future Nobel Prize winner was busy perfecting a recipe. Not for…...