Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Khe Sanh Combat Base sat on a plateau in northwest Quảng Trị province, eleven kilometres from Laos, at the end of a road that had been cut by ambush since August 1967. Whatever the six thousand men there needed had to arrive by air. From 21 January 1968 they needed a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In August 1941 a civil servant named David Bensusan-Butt was given 633 night photographs taken by RAF bombers over occupied Europe and asked a simple question: are they hitting anything? His answer broke Bomber Command. Of the aircraft whose crews reported attacking...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the engine of a train at Yahodyn on Monday morning, about two kilometres from the Polish border. Nobody was killed. The passengers had been ordered off fifteen minutes earlier, which is now a routine Ukrainian railway procedure and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For five months the United States Air Force has said almost nothing about the man it went back for. He has no name in the public record. He has a call sign, and that is deliberate: Dude 44 Bravo, the weapons systems officer of an F-15E Strike Eagle that came apart...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Fifteen jet airliners sat on the apron at Saskatoon for close to two decades, going quietly to pieces in Saskatchewan winters. They were Fokker F28 Fellowships, and they had once belonged to Canadian Regional Airlines. As of this week they are gone. aeroTELEGRAPH...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On the morning of 11 September 2001, four pilots of the District of Columbia Air National Guard ran to their F-16s at Andrews without waiting for live weapons to be loaded. One of them, Lt. Heather Penney, had never scrambled an aircraft before. She had never even...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Ninety-three young American soldiers, three South Vietnamese servicemen and eleven civilian crew boarded a Super Constellation at Travis Air Force Base in March 1962 and flew west. Somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, the aeroplane stopped existing. Not a seat...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Five years after the Taliban walked into Kabul, one of the odder questions in military aviation is still unanswered: what is actually left of the air force the United States spent two decades and billions of dollars building? The honest answer is that nobody outside...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
At midnight on 11 September 2026, Algeria closed its airspace to every civilian and military aircraft registered in the United Arab Emirates. It is the kind of announcement that sounds enormous and, in commercial terms, changes almost nothing. The UAE carrier that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is a photograph doing the rounds of a grey twinjet sitting in a hangar in Brazil, wearing markings almost nobody expected to see on an Embraer product: the words UZ AIR FORCE, the registration UK 39010, and roundels in the blue, white and green of Uzbekistan....
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