Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story At 7:26 on the morning of New Year’s Day 1929, a fat, three-engined Fokker lifted off from a field near Los Angeles and simply refused to come down. For the next six days, seven hours and forty minutes, it stayed in the air — sleeping,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story The photographs are almost hard to believe: Wellingtons limping home with whole sections of fuselage burned or shot away, the fabric skin hanging in ribbons and the aircraft’s metal skeleton showing through like the bones of a fish. And still...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story After a certification saga that outlasted a pandemic, three Boeing CEOs and the better part of a decade, the smallest jet in the 737 MAX family is finally legal to carry passengers. On 3 August, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted Boeing...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Bangladesh does not often make the big Boeing headlines. That changed at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, where the country’s largest private airline quietly placed the biggest bet of its twelve-year life. At the “Beyond with Boeing” event...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story It had a propeller at the back, a nose that tilted up to lob its cannon shells, and a seat that dropped its pilot out through the belly in an emergency so he would not be chopped to pieces by his own engine. It was nearly as long as a DC-3. And it was...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our ten-part focus series. Part 7 told the engineering story of the B-29 — the pressurised cabin, the burning engines, the Battle of Kansas. This piece asks the question that story leaves hanging: how did America...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Somewhere over the Indian Ocean last week, a Boeing 777 Freighter was doing something faintly absurd: flying a set of engine parts almost 10,000 nautical miles, nonstop, because a single airliner on the other side of the planet could not fly without...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Every two years, the empty skies over Australia’s Top End fill with the noise of the largest air-combat exercise in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, for the first time, some of those fighters wore Japanese and Indonesian markings. Exercise...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Part 8 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Part 7 left the three-billion-dollar B-29 failing at high altitude. This part is about the man who turned it around, the night that followed, and the sixty-plus cities after that. It is not...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story In the 1960s, the United States built a space station whose true purpose was so secret that the men chosen to fly it could not tell their own families what they did. The cover story was research — testing whether astronauts could be useful in...
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