Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Three people were killed on Tuesday afternoon when a Cirrus SR22T struck a mountainside above Leukerbad, in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Kantonspolizei Wallis said the aircraft had taken off from Lugano and made an intermediate landing at Sion airport before...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Ukraine has spent this war building some of the densest electronic warfare cover on earth. Along much of the front line, GPS and GLONASS simply do not work. A drone that depends on satellite navigation arrives over the target having forgotten where it is....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
A radar-guided missile announces itself. It has to: something has to illuminate the target, and the moment that happens the target knows it is being shot at.An infrared missile says nothing at all. It emits no signal, because it is not looking for a reflection. It is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Turkish Airlines does not have an aircraft problem. It has an engine problem, and it has spent the better part of a year using one to solve the other.A 150-aircraft Boeing 737 MAX order — announced with considerable ceremony after President Erdogan met President...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Korean Air signed the paperwork in Seoul this week, and the number on it is the largest in the airline’s history: roughly 60 trillion won, about $44.8 billion, for 103 Boeing aircraft and the engines to keep them running.This is the moment an announcement...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
A Tomahawk leaves a destroyer’s deck, climbs, settles down to a few hundred feet and flies for up to 1,600 kilometres (870 miles) at 880 km/h (550 mph). At the end of that, it is expected to arrive at a specific building. Not a city. A building.The obvious...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The video is short and very loud. A Boeing 737 is shaking itself half to pieces somewhere over northeastern Iran, and above the heads of the passengers the ceiling is coming apart — long panels of interior lining folding down out of the roofline and dropping into the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On the night of 16 December 1943, Bomber Command came home to an England that had disappeared. Radiation fog had closed almost every airfield in the east. Crews who had survived Berlin circled above a white nothing until their tanks ran dry. At RAF Bourn alone,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 6 September 1948, John Derry became the first Briton to fly faster than sound, in a de Havilland DH.108. Four years later to the day, on 6 September 1952, he was killed at Farnborough in front of a crowd of a hundred thousand people, along with his flight test...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The most uncomfortable finding of the whole Ramstein investigation is also the simplest. Nobody broke a rule. The trinational safety commission concluded that the display complied with STANAG 3533, the NATO standard then governing flying displays, and that the...
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