Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story At 3:46 in the afternoon of Friday 22 November 1935, a four-engined flying boat lifted off the water at Alameda, California, and set course west across an ocean that no aeroplane had ever crossed on a schedule. Around twenty thousand people were...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Most airlines mark an anniversary with a commemorative decal near the boarding door and a press release nobody reads. All Nippon Airways paints cartoon monsters across an entire Boeing 787 and sends it to another continent. On Monday, ANA confirmed...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 27 February 1974, a Soviet Antonov An-24 came down the approach into Gambell, Alaska, with one engine already dead from fuel starvation. It was not supposed to be there. It was supposed to be in Provideniya, 62 miles away across the Bering Sea in...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Almost every maritime patrol aircraft in history has been something else first. The P-3 Orion was an airliner. The Nimrod was the Comet. The P-8 is a 737. You take a tube with wings and long legs, and you fill it with sonar equipment. The Breguet...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story In 1967 the Soviet Union asked for an aeroplane that could carry forty tonnes five thousand kilometres in under six hours, land on an unprepared strip five hundred metres long, and do it in Siberian winter. Fifty-five years later, that aeroplane is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Some aeroplanes shout. The Percival Mew Gull whispered — a slip of a thing, barely twenty feet long, its wings not much wider than a family car, built almost entirely of wood and glue in a shed at Gravesend. You could have mistaken it for a toy....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Some aeroplanes are designed. The Lockheed Constellation looks like it was sculpted — by someone who had been told, sternly, that a machine carrying forty people across an ocean had no business being ugly. That curved, dolphin-backed fuselage....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 24 May 1928, a silver airship called the Italia circled the top of the world. Below her lay the North Pole, and her crew dropped an Italian flag, a banner from Milan and a small wooden cross onto the endless white. It was a triumph. It should have...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Da qualche parte oltre la Manica, in una chiazza di petrolio e in un mare grigio e gelido, un pilota di caccia annaspa e sta perdendo la battaglia contro l'ipotermia. Lo sente prima di vederlo: un ronzio lento e sferragliante, un aereo che sembra meno in volo e...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has...
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