On 4th March 1954, Tony LeVier, official test pilot of the Lockheed company, took-off for the first time in a prototype of a new fighter – XF-104, later developed into a well-known F-104 Starfighter. The […]
Sikorsky H-34G.III (c/n 58-1515, formerly PZ+344, QC+404 and 80+59 of of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Air Corps, currently wearing the German naval aviation / Marineflieger livery), static display during Galileo SAR Meet 2023, Nordholz, […]
At the end of January 2024, the German Federal Ministry of Defence (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung) published the 18th issue of armament affairs report – 18. Bericht des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung zu Rüstungsangelegenheiten. Between several aviation-related […]
The German Ministry of Defence recently disclosed the date of annual open doors event of the country´s armed forces – Tag der Bundeswehr. This year´s edition will take place on 8th June in ten different […]
Between 24th and 28th August 2023, the latest edition of Galileo SAR Meet took place in Nordholz air base, at the North Sea coast. Search and rescue crews from Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, the Czech Republic […]
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 […]
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