Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Quando due velivoli si scontrano in volo, come è accaduto di recente con un EA-18G Growler presso la base aerea di Mountain Home, il campo di detriti può estendersi per chilometri. Pezzi di alluminio, cavi e componenti avionici si disperdono sul terreno in schemi che a un osservatore inesperto possono sembrare casuali...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable year. Not one of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown, more than a third...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only credible direct...
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