The Westland Lynx is one of the most successful naval helicopters developed during the Cold War. Designed in the late 1960s as a successor to the Scout and Wasp helicopters, the new rotorcraft performed its […]
Airbus H145M LUH SOF and Airbus H145M LUH SAR (c/n 20136 and c/n 20360, ´76+14´ and ´77+08´ of the German Armed Forces), rehearsal for flying displays at 2025 edition of Tag der Bundeswehr open doors […]
Sikorsky H-34G (c/n 58-1100, formerly PZ+464, QB+467, QA+470, PC+202 and 80+35 of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Air Corps), static display during the 2025 edition of Tag der Bundeswehr open-doors event, Bückeburg, June 2025. In […]
Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was born in 1871, in Bakkebølle, Denmark. He trained as a watchmaker, then served with the Royal Danish Navy before moving to Copenhagen, where he worked as a mechanic. In 1898, he […]
On 13 June 1944, the first V-1 flying bombs, launched within Operation Eisbär (Polar Bear), reached England. The German flying bomb, at first known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 […]
Every year, we are bringing your attention to some of the upcoming aviation events in Europe and sharing our experiences from their previous editions, as well as telling you the reasons, why we consider them […]
The German flying bomb, initially known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance Weapon No. 1), was developed in the early 1942 by Fritz Gosslau and Robert Lusser, who at […]
Rigid and semi-rigid airships first appeared in the late nineteenth century and were consistently developed in the following decades. Pioneers such as Alberto Santos-Dumont, Count von Zeppelin and Thomas Scott Baldwin transformed the dirigible from […]
Embraer ERJ 135ER (c/n 145376, G-RJXL of BMI Regional), taxiing at Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2018. Development of the Embraer ERJ (Embraer Regional Jet) aircraft family began in the late 1980s, with the […]
On 25th April 1945, the only German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ was captured by the Red Army in Stettin (now Szczecin, in Poland). However, shortly before she was significantly damaged by the Germans themselves who […]
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