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Junkers J 1
Junkers J 1 (full-scale replica), exhibited at Technikmuseum “Hugo Junkers” in Dessau, August 2025. Hugo Junkers was one of the best-known German inventors of the early 20th century. His early career was related to mechanical […]
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Georg Wulf
Georg Wulf, the German aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in 1895 in Bremen. At the age of fifteen, he witnessed the first aviation trials attempted by Henrich and Wilhelm Focke. Although their canard-wing […]
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Yakovlev Yak-27R
Yakovlev Yak-27R / Як-27Р, NATO reporting name “Mangrove” (c/n 477, formerly “0708” – “red 28” of the Soviet Air Force), exhibited at Technikmuseum “Hugo Junkers” in Dessau, August 2025. In the early 1950s, the Soviet […]
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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 […]
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Bölkow P-166/3
Bölkow P-166/3 ´Flying Jeep´ experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The P-166/3 was developed in 1960 by Götz Heidelberg, a German aviation engineer, inventor, and aircraft designer who at that […]
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Bombs on Paris!
On 30 August 1914, only a month after the outbreak of the Great War, a single German Taube aircraft carried out an air raid on the French capital, dropping a few bombs and a bag […]
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Kaman HH-43F Huskie
Kaman HH-43F Huskie (c/n 174, formerly 62-4547 of the United States Air Force – USAF), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The HH-43 Huskie, one of the most interesting helicopters developed in […]
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Hispano HA-200D Saeta
Hispano HA-200D Saeta (c/n 20/73, formerly in service with Ejército del Aire / the Spanish Air Force, D-IWMS of Messerschmitt Stiftung), departure from Neuburg air base, July 2025. In the late 1940s, with the beginning […]
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Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze
Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze (c/n 100406, formerly operated by Kriegsmarine / the German Navy), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The idea of using an aircraft to improve observation range of submarines […]