Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story At 3:46 in the afternoon of Friday 22 November 1935, a four-engined flying boat lifted off the water at Alameda, California, and set course west across an ocean that no aeroplane had ever crossed on a schedule. Around twenty thousand people were...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the night of 21 September 1993, a decorated Soviet combat pilot climbed onto the podium of the Russian parliament and, at twenty-five minutes past midnight, swore himself in as President of Russia. Five years earlier, the same man had been hanging...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 27 February 1974, a Soviet Antonov An-24 came down the approach into Gambell, Alaska, with one engine already dead from fuel starvation. It was not supposed to be there. It was supposed to be in Provideniya, 62 miles away across the Bering Sea in...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Argentina bought five fighter jets from France, paid for them, and took delivery in May 2019. Seven years later, not one of them has flown a single operational sortie. On 20 August the Argentine Navy stopped pretending they ever would. The aircraft...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Four twin-engined transports fly line abreast, eighty metres apart, a hundred and fifty feet above the canopy. Behind each one a white plume spreads and settles into the trees. The run takes about four and a half minutes and covers sixteen kilometres....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story The 413th Flight Test Squadron does not fly rescue missions. It is a test unit. It puts helicopters through developmental trials and writes up the results. But when the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center calls, it is usually because everything else...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story Paraguay has not flown a jet combat aircraft since 2003, when the last Aermacchi-derived AT-26 Xavantes were retired. It has never flown a supersonic one. Now it is looking at a country 18,000 kilometres away that has just retired the largest fleet of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Some aeroplanes shout. The Percival Mew Gull whispered — a slip of a thing, barely twenty feet long, its wings not much wider than a family car, built almost entirely of wood and glue in a shed at Gravesend. You could have mistaken it for a toy....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 24 May 1928, a silver airship called the Italia circled the top of the world. Below her lay the North Pole, and her crew dropped an Italian flag, a banner from Milan and a small wooden cross onto the endless white. It was a triumph. It should have...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Da qualche parte oltre la Manica, in una chiazza di petrolio e in un mare grigio e gelido, un pilota di caccia annaspa e sta perdendo la battaglia contro l'ipotermia. Lo sente prima di vederlo: un ronzio lento e sferragliante, un aereo che sembra meno in volo e...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Era minuta, bionda e aveva ventun anni, e teneva dei fiori nella cabina di pilotaggio. Non per scherzo, non per una fotografia, ma per sé stessa. Da qualche parte sopra la terra smossa del Fronte di Mius, in uno Yak-1 con un giglio pallido dipinto vicino al muso, Lydia Litvyak...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia In una mattina d'estate del 2024, migliaia di persone si sono radunate sulle coste dell'isola di Vancouver per dare l'ultimo saluto a un gigante di 79 anni. L'Hawaii Mars, il più grande idrovolante ancora in volo al mondo, si è sollevato dall'acqua per l'ultima volta, scortato...
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