Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
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...
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
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
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...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of tall steel...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best look yet at a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Open-source analysts say Ukrainian forces struck the Russian airbase at Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan region in the early hours of 20 August 2026, damaging a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The claim rests on satellite imagery circulated by OSINT channels rather than an official...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost nobody remembers it....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the most successful...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft it was meant to...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation’s strangest...
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