Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In September 1939, Poland went to war in the air flying gull-winged fighters that belonged to another decade. Yet in a hangar at Okęcie sat the aircraft that was supposed to change all that: the PZL.50 Jastrząb — the Hawk — a sleek,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Look quickly and you might call it a Sabre. Look again and the differences pile up: a fatter fuselage, twin-wheel landing gear, cannon in the nose, and — strangest of all — no air intake at the front. This was the North American YF-93, a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story It looked like nothing else in the sky: a stubby twin-engine fighter whose nose stopped dead at the wing, as if someone had sawn the front off a normal aeroplane. Test pilots loved it. Comic-book readers worshipped it. And the U.S. Navy, after flying...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On 26 August 2026, seven Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawks were blessed and formally handed over at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City. With that quiet ceremony, the Philippine Air Force closed out one of the most consequential procurement runs in its history...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The most advanced fighter America builds has a decidedly un-glamorous problem: it runs too hot. Every new sensor, jammer and processor bolted into the F-35 Lightning II throws off heat the jet was never designed to shed — and the fix has become...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 on final approach to Cologne/Bonn came uncomfortably close to a drone earlier this year. This week, the consequences arrived: Germany’s air-navigation authority has rewritten how the airport’s runways are used...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Sweden has decided that its most modern transport helicopter is not worth keeping. From 2027, the Swedish Armed Forces will begin retiring nine NH90 battlefield transports — barely a decade after the last of them was delivered — and lean...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 6 August 1969, a Soviet helicopter lifted 40,204.5 kilograms — just over 40 tonnes — to a height of 2,255 metres. That is roughly the weight of a loaded articulated lorry, carried straight up by rotors. No helicopter has lifted more, before or...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story A jet aeroplane hovering ten feet above a runway is doing something aerodynamically absurd. There is no airflow over the wings, so the control surfaces do nothing. The only things keeping it upright are puffs of compressed air from nozzles at the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story The trick she was best known for went like this: fly a biplane upside down, ten feet off the grass, and cut a ribbon strung between two poles with the propeller. The poles were held by Steve Wittman and Bill Brennan. On the first attempt the engine...
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