Aviazione militare, Notizia
On Aug. 18, 2026, off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japanese fighter pilots were sent up to shadow an unusual pair drifting across the East China Sea. One was a Chinese Y-9 electronic-warfare aircraft. The other had no one aboard at all: a Tengden TB-001...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On the morning of 25 October 1999, a small charter jet lifted off from Orlando bound for Dallas. It was an ordinary hop for six ordinary reasons, a golfer, his agents, a course designer, and two pilots, all with places to be. Within minutes, something went quietly and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Breaking — The US Navy is internally weighing whether to rename the future aircraft carrier CVN-81, currently designated the future USS Doris Miller, and could potentially name it after President Donald Trump, CNN reported on 20 August 2026 in an exclusive that has...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Above the Sea of Japan the air was thin and lethally cold, the clouds below him packed like dirty cotton. It was Royce Williams’ second flight of the day, 18 November 1952, and his Grumman Panther was clawing past 12,000 feet when the radio crackled: bogeys,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It started before dawn. Eight strikes, one runway, and a message aimed squarely at Ankara. Overnight on 18-19 August 2026, Israeli jets cratered the Abu Duhur air base in Syria’s Idlib province, and by sunrise the diplomatic fallout was louder than the bombs....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In June 1981, a young Israeli pilot flew the most exposed position in one of the most audacious air raids in history. Twenty-two years later, that same man carried a Torah scroll that had survived a concentration camp into orbit — and never came home. Between...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It was a routine training flight on a grey winter afternoon. Three American airmen took off from Wiesbaden in an unarmed little jet, expecting to be back in three hours. They never came home. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner over East Germany on 28...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the last day of 1986, a sleek new fighter lifted off from a runway in Israel and climbed into a clear desert sky. It handled beautifully. It was, by many accounts, world-class. Eight months later, its own government voted to kill it — by a single vote. The...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The men on the beach at Hammam al-Shatt heard the sea before they heard the sky. It was a clear Tuesday morning, just after ten, the first of October 1985, and the Tunisian coast south of Tunis was doing what it always did at that hour, fishermen, a few children, the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the sirens came before the prayers were finished. It was 6 October 1973, and along the Suez Canal and across the Golan Heights, Egyptian and Syrian armies were pouring over Israel’s lines....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In November 1983, a 31-year-old Quebec pilot landed a light aircraft by himself at a small airfield in Georgia. It was loaded with marijuana, flown up from Jamaica. Police were waiting.He was sentenced to five years and served sixteen months. He walked out on 20 March...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 12 May 1940, No. 12 Squadron was asked for volunteers. The target was a pair of bridges over the Albert Canal near Maastricht, across which the German Army was walking into Belgium. Everyone in the squadron volunteered.Five Fairey Battles went. One...
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