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Images of early Arado and Heinkel prototypes, trainer and seaplanes from the late 1920s and early 1930s. All but one photo come from an Luftwaffen photographers estate and have been developed from his negatives. My special thank goes to Mr. Lars Henriksson and Mr. Lars Sundin as well as our own Nico Braas who helped [...]
On 12 August 2007, a dreamlike summery day, around 80,000 people found their way to the Luftwaffen airbase Porz-Wahn near Cologne to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Luftwaffen base. Besides beer and sausages the main attractions for the visitors were the new Eurofighter Typhoon and a NATO Awac as well as a MedEvac Airbus, [...]
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 K (”Kurfürst”) was an enhanced version of the successful G (”Gustav”) type. Since the Gustav had so many subtypes, it was decided to create a new designation which should carry on the best attributes of the G-10 and G-14 types with some new improvements. The prototype Bf 109 K was converted [...]
This special book deals with the history of the airfield Großenhain in Saxonia near the City of Dresden, Germany. It comes along in form of a compendium and covers all important eras of the airfield from the early years as a “Preußische Militärfliegerstation” (Prussian Military airfield) in 1913 until its present day civilian and industrial [...]
This recent book out of the popular Aerofax series by Ian Allan Publishing deals with the Soviet Sukhoi Su-25 combat plane. The author, Yefim Gordon is a renowned expert in military aviation especially in the field of Soviet and Russian combat aircrafts. In his latest work he describes the development of the Soviet Union’s close [...]