Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
India’s most ambitious home-built fighter has drawn sharp criticism from an unlikely quarter: one of the officers who helped run the air force until weeks ago. Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, who stepped down as the Indian Air Force’s Vice Chief less than two...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes for 2027. The hub...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Avvicinandosi a un Antonov An-22 mentre i motori vengono avviati, non ci si limita a sentirne il rombo, lo si percepisce fisicamente. Quattro dei motori turboelica più potenti mai costruiti fanno girare otto enormi eliche, ciascuna pala descrivendo un cerchio più alto di una casa, e il suono è profondo e lacerante...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 21 marzo 1999, due uomini esausti fecero atterrare un'imponente mongolfiera argentata nel deserto egiziano ed entrarono nella storia. Bertrand Piccard e Brian Jones avevano appena compiuto ciò che i pionieri avevano tentato invano per decenni: sorvolare l'intero pianeta...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Niente motore. Niente carburante per aerei. Niente razzo. Solo un sottile aliante bianco, le cui lunghe ali si nutrono di invisibili fiumi d'aria ascensionale, salendo più in alto di un aereo spia U-2 nel gelido nero della stratosfera. Nel 2018, l'aliante senza motore Perlan 2 ha raggiunto i 76.124 piedi...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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