Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon (c/n GS057, 30+76 of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), static display during spotterhour at Mini Tiger Meet 2023, Neuburg a.d. Donau, July 2023. On 6th July 2023, during ´family day´ organized […]
On 5th July, the office of German Ministry of Defence announced that budget committee of Bundestag, the German parliament, finally approved the purchase of sixty heavy light CH-47F Chinook rotorcraft. It is supposed that the […]
Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12 (c/n S2/7154, formerly XN348 of the Army Air Corps, UK), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. History of that small helicopter can be said to begin with Juan de […]
Eurocopter Tiger (Airbus EC665) UHT and HAD variants operated by Internationale Hubschrauberausbildungszentrum (International Helicopter Training Centre) of the German Armed Forces in Bückeburg, taking-off for flying display during Tag der Bundeswehr open doors event, Bückeburg, […]
On 26th May 1941, Fairey Swordfish aircraft launched from HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier hit German battleship Bismarck with two torpedoes, damaging her stern and making the ship unmanoeuvrable. The story of pursuit of one […]
On 19th May 1891, Oswald Boelcke, pioneer aviator, World War I air ace and godfather of the German fighter aviation, was born in Giebichenstein, Saxony (now a district of Halle). Oswald Boelcke was the fourth […]
Dornier Do 228-212LM (c/n 8214, 57+04 of the German Naval Aviation / Marineflieger), static display at spotter day organized on the eve of the 100th Anniversary of the German Naval Aviation, Nordholz air base, August […]
Eurocopter AS 332 L1 Super Puma (c/n 2050, German Federal Police / Bundespolizei) static display at spotter day organized on the eve of the 100th Anniversary of the German Naval Aviation (Marineflieger), Nordholz air base, […]
March is knocking at our doors now, and it means the 2023 aviation season in Europe is right around the corner. Therefore, similarly to the previous years, we bring you the first batch of air […]
On 24th February 1935, the first prototype of German heavy bomber Heinkel He 111 performed its maiden flight at Rostock-Marienehe. The Heinkel He 111 bomber and its development can serve as an example of German […]
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