Aviazione militare, Notizia
At 12:45 on Sunday afternoon, Polish controllers pulled a slice of airspace east of Lublin out of civil use. At 13:15, Poland’s Operational Command announced that an unidentified object had crossed from the direction of Belarus. A duty Mi-24 was already on its...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is no harbour on Jan Mayen. There is no town, no permanent population, and for most of the year not much daylight either. There is a strip of black volcanic gravel about a kilometre and a half long, no instrument approach, and a 2,277-metre volcano that...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A single helicopter arriving at a mountain airfield in Styria is not usually news. This one is, because it is the twelfth, and twelve is a third of the way through the largest helicopter recapitalisation the Austrian armed forces have ever attempted. The aircraft flew...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The Royal Air Force has a motto that was chosen in 1912, long before anyone had a serious plan for getting there: per ardua ad astra, through adversity to the stars. On 1 September 2026 the RAF quietly took the astra part literally. Air Command, the headquarters of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Four fighters is not an air force. Four fighters, three tankers, two airlifters and three hundred people who can put all of that down on a foreign runway and have it flying again the next morning — that is an air force, compressed. On 8 September the French Air...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The display had been running for barely two minutes. Thousands of people were standing along the fence line at Tanagra Air Base, north of Athens, cameras up, waiting for the noise that only a Phantom makes. Then the jet came out of a turn, low, and did not climb. At...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Switzerland ordered its Patriot air defence system in 2022 and expected the first fire unit to arrive in 2026. It is now 4 September 2026, nothing has arrived, and the workaround that was supposed to rescue the timetable has just fallen apart. Armasuisse has confirmed...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Every fighter jet has the same fatal dependency: a long strip of concrete. Destroy the runway and the aircraft is a very expensive ornament. In the early 1950s, with NATO planners assuming their handful of airfields in Germany would be atomised in the opening hours of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The Royal Air Force flies several aircraft that it cannot refuel. This is not a secret, and it is not new, but it is faintly absurd, and it has finally produced an answer. In a written answer on 2 September, Minister of State for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
There is an Airbus A380 sitting in the sun at Tarbes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It has been there since 16 July 2025. It is painted for an airline that has flown four flights in its entire existence, holds no air operator’s certificate, and is now defending...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story For the second time in four days, Polish fighters have been scrambled to meet a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. On Thursday afternoon, 3 September 2026, the four-engined turboprop was intercepted roughly 40 kilometres north...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Most aeroplanes are shaped by aerodynamics. The Short Skyvan was shaped by what would fit inside it. Short Brothers started from the cargo and worked outwards: a square-section fuselage of constant cross-section, running straight back to a full-width...
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