Share this story Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven...
Il 1° agosto 1955, Tony LeVier fece decollare uno strano e nuovo aereo Lockheed dal letto di un lago prosciugato nel deserto del Nevada. L'aereo aveva ali incredibilmente lunghe e strette, simili a quelle di un aliante a motore, ed era alimentato da un singolo motore a reazione. Saliva in quota come nessun altro aereo che avesse mai pilotato...
Share this story On 10 September 1956, in the high desert above Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation's chief test pilot Bob Baker pushed the throttle of an aircraft nobody outside the U.S. Air Force fighter procurement office had ever heard of into...
Share this story In late 1958, in the high Texas sky over Naval Air Station Dallas, Vought's chief test pilot John Konrad flew an aircraft that could outmanoeuvre, outclimb, outrun and outturn the future F-4 Phantom II. The aircraft had a single engine. It had no...
Share this story Seventy-four years ago today — 19 May 1952 — at Edwards Air Force Base in the high California desert, Grumman test pilot Corwin “Corky” Meyer climbed into the cockpit of an aircraft so strange that nobody else in the U.S. Navy...
Share this story Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150...
La routine era impossibile. Bob Hoover decollava con il suo Rockwell Shrike Commander, un aereo business bimotore, non un aereo acrobatico, saliva in quota e spegneva entrambi i motori. Poi, affidandosi solo all'inerzia e alla gravità, eseguiva un looping e...
Share this story On the morning of 18 June 1914 — ten years and six months after Orville Wright lifted off Kitty Hawk — a 21-year-old American named Lawrence Burst Sperry flew a Curtiss C-2 biplane down the Seine at 50 feet above the water in front of a crowd of...
Share this story Sun Country Airlines never expected to become an airline-industry case study. Founded in 1982 by laid-off Braniff pilots, it spent thirty years quietly running ski charters out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas package tours, and the occasional...
Share this story Most African airlines have spent the last decade trying to survive. Ethiopian Airlines has spent the last decade trying to outgrow every other airline on its continent — and then a few off it. The Addis Ababa-based carrier flies more international...
Il 13 settembre 1935, Howard Hughes salì nella cabina di pilotaggio di un elegante aereo da corsa argentato di sua progettazione e lo fece volare a 352,39 miglia orarie (565 km/h) su un percorso misurato a Santa Ana, in California, più veloce di qualsiasi aereo terrestre nella storia. Aveva 29 anni e aveva già...
Share this story When something goes catastrophically wrong in an aircraft cockpit, everything changes in an instant. Warning lights illuminate, horns blare, and the aircraft may suddenly behave in ways the pilots have never experienced outside a simulator. What...
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