Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On 23 August, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said it had engaged 14 targets across southern Russia and occupied Crimea in a single day, and hit 11 of them. Among them, according to the unit’s commander, were two Russian combat aircraft...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story United spent a fortnight teasing this announcement with a reality-TV-style video full of coded clues, which the internet duly spent a fortnight decoding. On Tuesday morning, in a hangar at Newark, the airline finally said it out loud. Ten new...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story At half past four on the morning of 16 October 1936, standing beside a single-engined monoplane at RAAF Richmond outside Sydney, a 27-year-old New Zealander gave the assembled press a clear instruction. If she went down in the Tasman Sea, nobody was...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story At 3:46 in the afternoon of Friday 22 November 1935, a four-engined flying boat lifted off the water at Alameda, California, and set course west across an ocean that no aeroplane had ever crossed on a schedule. Around twenty thousand people were...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In 1937 Focke-Wulf flew a fighter that was roughly 80 km/h faster than the Messerschmitt Bf 109 then in service, using exactly the same engines. It had twice the range. It weighed twice as much and still outran the thing it was compared against. Nine...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Put two engines in a fighter and you normally end up with something like a Bf 110: two nacelles, one on each wing, and an aeroplane that is bigger than the thing it is trying to shoot down. Kawasaki tried a different answer. They put one engine in...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Every helicopter pilot knows the problem with ejecting from a helicopter. Above your head, turning at several hundred revolutions per minute, are the blades. Fire yourself upwards and you go through them. Which is why, in more than a century of rotary...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Updated 25 August 2026The mystery is solved. The aircraft carried CIA Director John Ratcliffe on an unannounced trip to Moscow, according to reporting by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Axios, all citing...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Most airlines mark an anniversary with a commemorative decal near the boarding door and a press release nobody reads. All Nippon Airways paints cartoon monsters across an entire Boeing 787 and sends it to another continent. On Monday, ANA confirmed...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the night of 21 September 1993, a decorated Soviet combat pilot climbed onto the podium of the Russian parliament and, at twenty-five minutes past midnight, swore himself in as President of Russia. Five years earlier, the same man had been hanging...
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