Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On Tuesday afternoon in Dhaka, a government adviser stood up at the Secretariat and confirmed that a committee had finished drafting the agreement. Bangladesh intends to buy the Chengdu J-10.Twenty aircraft. A headline figure of $2.302 billion. And a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Buried in a routine American contract announcement on Monday was a single word that set the European defence press moving: Poland.The US Department of War confirmed that Boeing had been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story For four years, one of the more entertaining puzzles in open-source intelligence has been a set of aircraft-shaped objects sitting on Chinese ramps. They looked a bit like the Chengdu J-20. They also looked a bit wrong. Analysts squinted at satellite...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Somebody at the Tailhook Association convention this past weekend was holding a camera when the U.S. Navy put a particular slide on the screen. On it: a pair of Castelion Blackbeard test articles hanging under the right wing of an F/A-18E/F Super...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Twelve years on, a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard is still missing. Not missing in the sense that nobody knows exactly where the wreck lies — missing in the sense that the largest and most expensive underwater search in history has now...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story The Bell 47 is the helicopter everyone can draw: a glass bubble, an open lattice tail, two men sitting in what looks like a goldfish bowl on skids. It is the machine in the opening credits of M*A*S*H, and for a generation it was simply what the word...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story At 11:24 on the morning of 14 August 2005, a Greek Air Force F-16 pilot pulled alongside a Boeing 737 orbiting quietly over the Aegean and looked into the cockpit. The first officer was slumped motionless in his seat. The captain’s seat was...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Twelve minutes after leaving Tokyo on the evening of 12 August 1985, the rear pressure bulkhead of a Boeing 747 gave way. The escaping air blew off most of the vertical stabiliser and severed all four hydraulic systems. The crew were left with an...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Two minutes and thirty-three seconds passed between the moment an Airbus A310 stopped doing what its crew believed it was doing, and the moment it hit a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau. Seventy-five people died. The story is usually told as a simple...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Five years ago this month, a US Marine Corps F-35B took off from a British aircraft carrier, landed on an American assault ship, took on fuel and weapons, and flew off again to attack a second set of targets. The Marine Corps called it the first time...
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