Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Picture a field in occupied France. It is a little after midnight, and there is a full moon riding above the poplars. Three people stand in the wet grass, holding bicycle lamps, hearts going like drums. They are listening. And then they hear it: a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the morning of 15 July 1942, eight American warplanes went hunting for a break in the weather over the North Atlantic and found the roof of the world instead. They had left Greenland at first light, bound for Iceland and then the war in Europe, but...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On the evening of 4 September 1936, a turquoise-and-silver monoplane lifted off from an airfield in Oxfordshire and turned out over the Atlantic, into the dark and into the wind. At the controls, alone, was a 33-year-old woman who had never flown the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Two months after a Soviet missile knocked Gary Powers and his U-2 out of the sky, another American aircraft was hunting the edges of the same empire. On 1 July 1960, a Boeing RB-47H was flying a lonely electronic-reconnaissance mission high over the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story The sky over Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941 belonged almost entirely to the attackers. Almost. While battleships burned and most American aircraft were destroyed on the ground, a handful of pilots managed to get airborne and fight...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Most fighter aces fight one enemy. Witold Urbanowicz fought two of history’s most feared air forces — the Luftwaffe over England and the Imperial Japanese over China — and beat them both. The Polish pilot did it while exiled from a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story He wore a cravat instead of a regulation tie, no rank insignia, and often a borrowed uniform. He nearly washed out of flight training. And yet Adrian “Warby” Warburton became the most decorated photo-reconnaissance pilot in the Royal Air...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In 1941, the biggest movie star to put on a uniform was not sent to make training films or sell war bonds — though the Army very much wanted him to. James Stewart, fresh off an Academy Award, wanted to fly bombers into Germany. And he had to...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Long before he invented Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory or the giant peach, Roald Dahl was lying in the Libyan desert with a fractured skull, blood in his eyes, and a burning biplane a few yards away. He was 24 years old, and he had just...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, the richest man in America climbed into an unproven silver aircraft and took off alone, against the advice of everyone around him. Just over an hour later, Howard Hughes was lying in the burning wreckage of a Beverly...
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