De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide (c/n 6853, D-IKFG, formerly ´NR777´ of the Royal Air Force and ´D-7´ of the Belgian Air Force), flying display at Medieval Mini Tiger Meet 2023, Neuburg a.d. Donau, July 2023. […]
On 8th December 1938, the only German aircraft carrier ´Graf Zeppelin´ was launched in Kiel. After the Nazis came to power in Germany, expansion of the Kriegsmarine (the German Navy) became one of the priorities […]
In the first decade of July 2023, Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 (74th Tactical Air Force Wing – TaktLwG 74) organized – at its home base in Neuburg a.d. Donau – a Medieval Mini Tiger Meet. The […]
On 1st December 1932, a German mail and passenger aircraft Heinkel He 70, performed its maiden flight. The Heinkel He 70 was one of representatives of the new generation of German aircraft, designed and developed […]
Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger (c/n 120227, formerly VN679 of the RAF), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. By early 1944, the German aviation authorities slowly began realising that […]
During the year 1914, German aviation pioneers set several flight endurance world records, successively increasing the time they spent in the air, without refuelling. Although the last record in that series remained unbroken for more […]
Boeing 737-8Z6 (Boeing Business Jet 737-800, c/n 35478, HS-MVS of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn), taxiing on apron of Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2018 On 9th April 1967, prototype of Boeing 737 narrow-body […]
Embraer 190LR (ERJ-190-100LR, c/n: 19000435, OE-IHG of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH) taxiing at Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2012. The E190 is one of the aircraft belonging to the Embraer E-Jet family – narrow body, […]
On 29th September 1927, German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer Georg Wulf died in an aviation accident. Georg Wulf was born in 1895 in Bremen, Germany. At the age of fifteen, he witnessed the first […]
Westland Super Lynx Mk 88A (c/n WA.397, ´83+26´ of the German Naval Aviation / Marineflieger), static display during spotter day at Galileo SAR Meet 2023, Nordholz, August 2023. In the mid-1960s, the Westland company developed […]
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