Birth of the Typhoon

In late March 1994, the skies witnessed the maiden flight of Europe’s new symbol of military might: the Eurofighter Typhoon. Aircraft engineering companies from the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Spain joined their efforts at the last stage of the Cold War to create a contemporary combat aircraft that would fit their requirements. They couldn’t pick any of the available foreign offers for reasons of pricing, quality, or politics, so the only remaining thing was to design their own machine.