Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Seventy-four years ago today — 19 May 1952 — at Edwards Air Force Base in the high California desert, Grumman test pilot Corwin “Corky” Meyer climbed into the cockpit of an aircraft so strange that nobody else in the U.S. Navy was qualified to...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150 knots is unusual....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The routine was impossible. Bob Hoover would take off in his Rockwell Shrike Commander — a twin-engine business aircraft, not an aerobatic plane — climb to altitude, and shut both engines off. Then, on nothing but momentum and gravity, he would fly a loop and an...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 18 June 1914 — ten years and six months after Orville Wright lifted off Kitty Hawk — a 21-year-old American named Lawrence Burst Sperry flew a Curtiss C-2 biplane down the Seine at 50 feet above the water in front of a crowd of astonished Parisians....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 13 September 1935, Howard Hughes climbed into the cockpit of a sleek silver racer of his own design and flew it at 352.39 mph across a measured course in Santa Ana, California — faster than any landplane in history had ever flown. He was 29 years old, had already...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The admirals were convinced it was impossible. You simply could not sink a battleship from the air. Battleships were armoured fortresses, built to absorb punishment from naval guns. Bombs dropped from altitude, they argued, would never hit anything. General Billy...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Before Glenn Curtiss had ever sat in an aeroplane, he was already the fastest man in the world. On 23 January 1907, he rode a V8-engined motorcycle of his own construction at 136.3 mph across a measured mile in Ormond Beach, Florida. It was the fastest a human being...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Picture, if you will, a jet fighter the size of a compact car. A fighter with no landing gear — because it was never supposed to land. A fighter designed to be stored in a bomb bay, dropped into combat, and then retrieved by flying back up to a moving bomber and...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
James Harold Doolittle flew two flights that changed the world — and they could scarcely have been more different. The first was on 24 September 1929, at Mitchel Field, Long Island, when he climbed into a Consolidated NY-2 biplane with a fabric hood pulled over the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of February 20, 1959, workers arrived at Avro Canada’s sprawling plant in Malton, Ontario, and were handed slips of paper that said one thing: you are dismissed. By lunchtime, 14,000 people were out of work. By the following weeks, engineers who...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 11 July 1949, a seaplane carrying Jacqueline Auriol — daughter-in-law of the French President — crashed on the Seine near Paris. She was pulled from the wreckage with catastrophic facial injuries. Surgeons rebuilt her face through more than twenty operations spread...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Alla base aerea di Dyess ad Abilene, in Texas, un B-1B Lancer che aveva trascorso anni nel cimitero degli aerei in Arizona è tornato sulla pista di volo nel maggio 2026, appena riverniciato e con un nome che sembra il titolo di un sequel inaspettato: "Apocalypse II". Numero di serie...
Commenti recenti