Share this story Imagine falling out of an airplane at 15,000 feet with no parachute. Now imagine landing back inside it. For one Royal Flying Corps gunner in 1918, this wasn’t a nightmare — it was just another Tuesday. Aviation has always been a realm where the...
Share this story South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in...
Condividi questa storia Nell'aprile del 1942, il pilota da caccia sovietico Alexey Maresyev fu abbattuto dietro le linee nemiche sopra le foreste dell'oblast' di Novgorod. Ciò che seguì fu una delle storie più straordinarie – e in gran parte inedite – di resistenza umana nella storia dell'aviazione...
Share this story On the afternoon of Friday, 26 October 2001, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Edward “Pete” Aldridge, stepped up to a podium in Washington. Three thousand kilometres away, Boeing chairman Phil Condit and his Joint Strike Fighter boss, Frank Statkus,...
Share this story It was a Friday afternoon at the Pentagon, 29 February 2008 — a leap day, fittingly, for a decision almost nobody saw coming. Air Force officials stepped before the press to name the winner of the KC-X tanker programme, 179 aircraft and roughly 35...
Share this story The desert air was still cool at Edwards Air Force Base on the morning of 27 August 1990 when Northrop chief test pilot Paul Metz taxied out in a machine that looked like nothing else on Earth. Charcoal grey, diamond-winged, its two tails canted...
Share this story On the morning of 25 January 1995, on the island of Andøya in Arctic Norway, a team of Norwegian and American scientists watched a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket climb away from its launcher and curve north-east over the sea towards...
Share this story Fifteen minutes past midnight, 26 September 1983. In a command bunker called Serpukhov-15, south-west of Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov is settled into the commander’s chair for a night shift he was not originally scheduled to work. In...
Share this story By the late afternoon of Saturday, 27 October 1962, the men of Soviet submarine B-59 had very little left to breathe. The boat had been at sea for almost four weeks, hiding from the US Navy in the warm water north of Cuba, and her batteries were...
Share this story Two signatures. 296 stealth fighters. $24.3 billion. In a single deal, the F-35 program locked in the largest batch of Lightning IIs it has ever agreed to build at once. The contract covers Lots 18 and 19 — production runs split evenly at 148 jets...
Boeing si aggiudica il contratto NGAD per l'F-47: una nuova era per la potenza aerea. Venerdì scorso, il presidente Trump ha sganciato una bomba che ha avuto ripercussioni nel mondo militare-industriale, in senso figurato, ovviamente! Boeing è ufficialmente incaricata della progettazione e produzione dell'F-47, pubblicizzato come il...
Per cominciare: cos'è la barriera del suono? La "barriera del suono" si riferisce al punto in cui un oggetto viaggia alla velocità del suono, nota anche come Mach 1. Il suono si propaga come onde di pressione attraverso un mezzo come l'aria e la sua velocità dipende da fattori come la temperatura e...
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