Share this story In the spring of 1942 the brand-new Avro Lancaster had barely gone to war when Bomber Command sent twelve of them on a mission that bordered on suicidal: fly in broad daylight, at treetop height, a thousand miles across occupied Europe to bomb a...
Share this story On the morning of 21 March 1945, twenty de Havilland Mosquitos came in over Copenhagen at rooftop height, so low that Danes on the streets could see the crews’ faces. Their target was the Shellhus — the Gestapo’s headquarters in the...
Condividi questa storia Alcuni aerei vengono cancellati perché falliscono. Il Douglas F5D Skylancer è stato cancellato perché era troppo buono, troppo tardi e costruito dalla compagnia sbagliata. Ha superato la velocità del suono già al suo primo volo, aveva una manovrabilità eccezionale e ha impressionato ogni pilota che...
Share this story On November 6, 1945, an American fighter turned onto final approach to a small escort carrier off California when its engine quit. The pilot did not bail out. He kept coming, touched down, and caught a wire — and in doing so made the first...
Condividi questa storia Prendi un F-16 Fighting Falcon, elimina le sue ali e montaci sopra un'enorme ala a delta a forma di freccia che ne raddoppia quasi la superficie. Allunga la fusoliera, stipa il 65% di carburante in più e appendi bombe a ventisette punti di aggancio. Il risultato vola più lontano, trasporta...
Condividi questa storia Quando il Grumman X-29 stupì il pubblico delle manifestazioni aeree negli anni '80 con le sue ali che puntavano nella direzione sbagliata, e di nuovo quando la Russia presentò il Su-47 Berkut, entrambi furono salutati come passi avanti radicali. Nessuno dei due fu il primo. Un bombardiere tedesco aveva già volato con ali a freccia inversa...
Share this story The most famous British bomber of the Second World War began life as one of its worst. Before the Avro Lancaster hauled bouncing bombs to the Ruhr dams and Tallboys onto the Tirpitz, there was the Avro Manchester — a twin-engine heavy so plagued...
Share this story Three months after Pearl Harbor, two enormous Japanese flying boats lifted off from a lagoon in the Marshall Islands and set course for Hawaii. Their plan was almost absurd: fly nearly 2,000 miles across empty ocean, meet a submarine at a deserted...
Share this story Late in the afternoon of April 18, 1943 — Palm Sunday — a wall of German transport planes crawled north-east across the Mediterranean at wavetop height, so low their propellers kicked spray off the swells. There were about ninety of them,...
Condividi questa storia. La spia più preziosa nei pressi di un'esercitazione navale potrebbe non essere un sottomarino o un satellite. Potrebbe essere la nave portacontainer che naviga silenziosamente all'orizzonte, carica di casse e irta di antenne che sembrano identiche a quelle di qualsiasi altra nave mercantile...
Share this story Two years ago Riyadh Air was a logo and a promise. This week it flew its first passengers to Bangkok — the newest thread in a network that Saudi Arabia intends to stretch across the planet.On September 2, the kingdom’s from-scratch flag...
Share this story A French-built fighter took on fuel from a Chinese tanker over Egypt this week — and in doing so quietly rewrote a small piece of the aerial map. It is, as far as anyone can tell, the first time a Chinese Y-20 tanker has been publicly documented...
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