Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea — battleships led...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different plane entirely...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the technology of its...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 during a visit to...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il 3 luglio 1950, appena una settimana dopo l'inizio della guerra di Corea, il tenente di vascello Leonard Plog fece virare il suo jet ad ala dritta sulla coda di uno Yak-9 a elica e premette il grilletto. Fu la prima vittoria in combattimento aria-aria mai ottenuta da un jet della Marina statunitense, e apparteneva a un piccolo aereo...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Chiedete a chiunque abbia prestato servizio in Vietnam che suono avesse la guerra, e molti vi daranno la stessa risposta: un ritmico e sferragliante whop-whop-whop che si levava sopra gli alberi. Era il suono del Bell UH-1, l'Huey, e a seconda di quale estremità ci si trovasse...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Thirteen minutes after leaving Birmingham on the morning of 10 June 1990, the pilots of British Airways Flight 5390 had loosened their shoulder straps and set breakfast on their laps. Then, with a bang like a bomb, the left cockpit windscreen tore away — and...
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