Aviazione militare, Notizia
Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
What appears to be the United States’ most secretive unmanned aircraft — the classified Northrop Grumman RQ-180 — was photographed over the city of Larissa, Greece on March 18, 2026, providing what analysts are calling the clearest public imagery of the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On February 1, 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flew home from Tunisia with its tail section barely attached — connected to the rest of the plane by little more than a few metal longerons and a strip of aluminum skin. The ten men inside didn’t know if the...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton captured the sharpest images yet of an F-22A Raptor flying with both stealthy external fuel tanks and specialised sensor pods at Edwards Air Force Base on March 21, 2026 — providing the clearest look to date at a significant...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On February 9, 1943, a fully fueled American military cargo aircraft took off from Florida with a crew of eight — and landed in Mexico four and a half hours later with a crew of zero. No hijacking. No remote control. Just the most incredible solo flight of the Second...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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 extraordinary...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Il 25 marzo 2026 la Corea del Sud ha raggiunto un traguardo storico: il primo caccia KF-21 Boramae di serie è uscito dallo stabilimento della Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) di Sacheon con i propri motori, segnando l'inizio di un nuovo capitolo nella storia dell'aviazione militare del Paese.
Storie incredibili di aviazione, Storia dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare, Seconda guerra mondiale
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 sconosciute – di resistenza umana nella storia dell'aviazione. Abbattuto dietro...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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, gathered around a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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 billion dollars, and...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
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 outward like the fins...
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