Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il 17 maggio 1935, l'uomo che in seguito avrebbe scritto Il Piccolo Principe salì a bordo del più grande aereo del mondo. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a Mosca come corrispondente per un giornale francese, fu l'unico straniero autorizzato a salire a bordo del Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky"...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Take a V-1 flying bomb — the pilotless cruise missile that terrorised London in 1944 — and cut a small hole in the fuselage just ahead of the engine. Fit a plywood seat, a single control column, and a handful of basic instruments. Now put a young man...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nel 1942 Eddie Rickenbacker aveva già sfidato la morte più volte di quante la maggior parte degli uomini ci provi. Era l'"asso degli assi" americano della Prima Guerra Mondiale, un ex pilota della 500 Miglia di Indianapolis e l'inflessibile capo della Eastern Air Lines. Era all'inizio della sua...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
He was twenty-one, a copper miner’s son from Phoenix with a boxer’s swagger and a habit of ignoring orders. In the last September of the First World War, Second Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. turned himself into the most feared balloon-hunter in the skies over...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 21 September 1953, a flight line at Kimpo Air Base watched a swept-wing jet swing onto the approach and took it for one of their own F-86 Sabres. It wasn’t. It was a Soviet-built MiG-15, still wearing North Korean red stars, flown by a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It was the most meticulously rehearsed rescue mission in modern US military history — and it saved nobody. In the pre-dawn dark of 21 November 1970, a joint Army–Air Force strike force punched 23 miles into North Vietnam, straight past Hanoi’s...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
He was 31 years old — ancient by fighter-pilot standards — which is how a hard-drinking, twice-divorced Marine named Gregory Boyington got the nickname “Pappy.” He was also, by 1943, something close to washed up: a former Flying Tiger with a reputation for...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It was a little before nine on the night of 18 April 1995, and Captain Brian Udell was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle out over the black Atlantic off North Carolina. Beside him sat his weapons systems officer, Captain Dennis White. It was routine training — four jets...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
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 parliament approved the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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 single engine, far...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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 a wall of cloud...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
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 landmarks — bordered...
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