The Berlin airlift begins.
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AVIATION EVENTS
Tag der Bundeswehr 2026 – date and locations officially announced
Although only about two months have passed since this year’s edition of Tag der Bundeswehr – the annual open-doors event of the German armed forces – the German Ministry of Defence has already announced the […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
6 May 1937 – the Hindenburg disaster
On 6th May 1937, German airship Hindenburg caught fire while landing at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, USA and was completely destroyed, killing thirty six people. Rigid and semirigid airships appeared in the late 19th century […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (c/n 580-8967, 94+47), formerly German Air Force, exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. On 22nd March 1948, a new American subsonic jet trainer, successfully performed its maiden […]