Condividi questa storia Quando il Grumman X-29 stupì il pubblico delle manifestazioni aeree negli anni '80 con le sue ali che puntavano nella direzione sbagliata, e di nuovo quando la Russia presentò il Su-47 Berkut, entrambi furono salutati come passi avanti radicali. Nessuno dei due fu il primo. Un bombardiere tedesco aveva già volato con ali a freccia inversa...
Share this story The most famous British bomber of the Second World War began life as one of its worst. Before the Avro Lancaster hauled bouncing bombs to the Ruhr dams and Tallboys onto the Tirpitz, there was the Avro Manchester — a twin-engine heavy so plagued...
Share this story Three months after Pearl Harbor, two enormous Japanese flying boats lifted off from a lagoon in the Marshall Islands and set course for Hawaii. Their plan was almost absurd: fly nearly 2,000 miles across empty ocean, meet a submarine at a deserted...
Share this story Late in the afternoon of April 18, 1943 — Palm Sunday — a wall of German transport planes crawled north-east across the Mediterranean at wavetop height, so low their propellers kicked spray off the swells. There were about ninety of them,...
Share this story A French-built fighter took on fuel from a Chinese tanker over Egypt this week — and in doing so quietly rewrote a small piece of the aerial map. It is, as far as anyone can tell, the first time a Chinese Y-20 tanker has been publicly documented...
Condividi questa storia Dieci anni fa la Marina degli Stati Uniti aveva un drone da combattimento stealth, in grado di operare da portaerei, che decollava dal ponte di una superportaerei, e poi lo ha abbandonato. Questa settimana la Marina ha ammesso silenziosamente di volere indietro quel velivolo. Il 31 agosto, Naval Air Systems...
Condividi questa storia La guerra nello Stretto di Hormuz si è intensificata durante il fine settimana e, per una volta, gli scontri più significativi non si sono svolti sull'Iran. Si sono invece verificati sulla Giordania, dove le batterie Patriot americane hanno trascorso parte della mattinata di lunedì ad abbattere missili balistici iraniani diretti...
Share this story Germany spent Tuesday accusing Russia of trying to blow up a Ukrainian freighter on German soil. Russia spent the hours that followed escalating its denial, first through its embassy in Berlin, then through Vladimir Putin himself. The sequence...
Share this story On 5 November 1938 three Royal Air Force bombers took off from Ismailia in Egypt and turned east. Two of them landed at Darwin in northern Australia about forty-eight hours later, having flown roughly 7,150 miles without stopping. It was a world...
Share this story In 1947 Avro proposed a bomber shaped like nothing the Royal Air Force had ever bought: a vast tailless delta with no fuselage worth the name, meant to carry a nuclear weapon at high altitude across a continent. It became the Avro Vulcan. There was a...
Share this story At 3:58 on the afternoon of 29 May 1951, a red P-51 Mustang lifted off from Bardufoss in northern Norway with one man in it and no radio navigation aids ahead of him worth the name. Charles Blair was going to fly over the North Pole to Alaska, alone,...
Share this story Between May and August 1972, an F-4 Phantom pilot from Reidsville, North Carolina was credited with shooting down five MiG-21s over North Vietnam. Every one fell to the AIM-7 Sparrow, a radar-guided missile with a reputation so poor that crews joked...
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