Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story The video opens with a clip of an esports tournament. Screens glow. Controllers click. A crowd roars. Then the camera cuts to an air traffic control tower, and a voice asks the question the Federal Aviation Administration hopes will change American...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story For forty days, the skies over Iraq were empty. No airliners cruised overhead at 35,000 feet. No cargo planes descended into Baghdad International. No transit fees were collected, no passengers moved, no overflights logged. From late February to April...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story In the pre-dawn darkness of April 1, 2026, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 lifted off from Sheikh Isa Air Base and turned toward an incoming threat that ground-based air defenses had already failed to stop. Two Iranian drones were inbound....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In August 1914, when the first European armies crossed their borders and the Great War began, military aircraft were used for one purpose: watching. Unarmed reconnaissance planes flew over enemy lines, their observers sketching troop positions and supply routes. The...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the morning of April 18, 1942 — four months and eleven days after Pearl Harbor — sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the pitching deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. They were headed for Tokyo. None of them had enough fuel to...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Two small, strange-looking aircraft were built in total secrecy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works facility in Burbank, California, between 1976 and 1977. They were angular, faceted, and looked like something a geometry student had folded out of sheet...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In 1920, Bessie Coleman walked into every flight school in the United States that she could find. Every single one turned her away. She was Black. She was a woman. In Jim Crow America, that was two disqualifications, and neither was negotiable. So she...
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