Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It was a bright, ordinary afternoon in Florida. At about two o’clock on 5 December 1945, five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers rumbled off the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise. Fourteen men, a clear sky, a familiar patch of...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At 75,000 feet over the Baltic Sea, the world is dark blue above and curved below, and the only sound in the cockpit is the hiss of the pressure suit. On the morning of 29 June 1987, that calm ended with a bang.The right engine of Lt. Col. Duane Noll’s SR-71 Blackbird...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For as long as anyone could remember, getting from Montreal to Dakar meant flying the wrong way first. North-east to Paris or Brussels, a layover, then back south to Senegal — a journey of twelve hours or more to reach a city that sits almost due east across the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The blizzard came in off the Sea of Japan in sheets, and the flight deck of the USS Oriskany pitched in the grey November swell. It was 18 November 1952, and Lieutenant Royce Williams climbed into the cockpit of his Grumman F9F-5 Panther for his second mission of the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Just after midnight on 18 June 2026, residents of Moscow filmed something the Russian capital was not built to see: black smoke boiling over the Kapotnya district, where the Moscow Oil Refinery sits. It was the second strike on that single plant in a week. Ukrainian...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
L'ordine non proveniva da un campo di battaglia, bensì da una sala riunioni. Una domenica di inizio maggio 2026, un gruppo di alti ministri israeliani approvò un piano che si era fatto sempre più urgente nel corso dell'ultimo anno: acquistare altri due squadroni di caccia americani e...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Due delle maggiori potenze emergenti al mondo stanno negoziando in silenzio uno degli accordi sugli armamenti più insoliti del decennio, e quasi nessun capitale occidentale è presente. India e Brasile stanno lavorando a uno scambio: l'India cederebbe al Brasile i suoi caccia Tejas Mk1A di produzione nazionale...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
By the late afternoon of Saturday, 27 October 1962, the men of Soviet submarine B-59 had very little left to breathe. The boat had been at sea for almost four weeks, hiding from the US Navy in the warm water north of Cuba, and her batteries were nearly flat. With the...
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