Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Some aeroplanes are designed. The Lockheed Constellation looks like it was sculpted — by someone who had been told, sternly, that a machine carrying forty people across an ocean had no business being ugly. That curved, dolphin-backed fuselage....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Nel 1943, qualcuno alla Saunders-Roe guardò la vasta distesa vuota e priva di aeroporti del Pacifico e ebbe un'idea gloriosamente controcorrente: e se il tuo caccia non avesse bisogno di una pista? E se atterrasse direttamente sul mare? Il risultato fu l'SR.A/1...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Immagina un barile di birra con le ali. Ora fissaci un motore radiale a nove cilindri nella parte anteriore, infilaci dietro un pilota nervoso e dipingi una stella rossa sul lato. Congratulazioni: hai appena immaginato il Polikarpov I-16, il più tozzo, nervoso e silenzioso...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story 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...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story 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...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On a warm night in the summer of 1915, Londoners looked up from their blacked-out streets and heard something no city had ever heard before: the steady drone of engines coming out of the dark, high overhead. Moments later, bombs began to fall from a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the night of Aug. 17, 1943, a rocket engineer named Wernher von Braun walked back to his quarters on a quiet stretch of the German Baltic coast and looked up. A full moon hung over the secret research town of Peenemünde. Then the first flares...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Long Beach harbor, the morning of 2 November 1947, smelled of salt, diesel and quiet disappointment. Bobbing in the channel was the largest flying machine humanity had ever bolted together: a wooden flying boat the length of two-thirds of a football...
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