Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu — 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. Fifteen crews signed up, tens of thousands of spectators came to watch,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story The longest passenger flight ever operated was not a modern jet gliding from Singapore to New York. It was a lumbering World War II flying boat, cruising at 125 mph across a hostile ocean for up to thirty-three hours at a stretch — long enough...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On the morning of 7 December 1941, a Pan American Boeing 314 flying boat was two hours out of Auckland, New Zealand, gliding across the South Pacific in luxury — dining lounge, sleeping berths, white-jacketed stewards. Then the radio operator...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Picture a man leaning out of an open cockpit in a powder-blue military tunic he designed himself, a waxed moustache curling at the tips, waving to the crowd — and cradling a live lion cub in the crook of his arm. That was Roscoe Turner, and in...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story He had one eye, a sixth-grade education and a criminal record. He was also, by any honest measure, one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. Wiley Post circled the planet alone before most people had ever sat in an aeroplane, built the suit that made...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On the evening of 4 September 1936, a turquoise-and-silver monoplane lifted off from an airfield in Oxfordshire and turned out over the Atlantic, into the dark and into the wind. At the controls, alone, was a 33-year-old woman who had never flown the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Six weeks ago, Riyadh Air did not fly anywhere. On 30 July 2026, Saudi Arabia’s brand-new flag carrier opens a year-round route between Riyadh and Kuala Lumpur — its first scheduled service into Southeast Asia, and another sprint in one of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story For one week every July, a regional airport in eastern Wisconsin becomes the busiest patch of sky on the planet. In 2026 it also became the most crowded it has ever been. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026, the annual fly-in the Experimental Aircraft...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Somewhere over the cold Atlantic off Nova Scotia, about six and a half hours into an eight-hour crossing, passengers in the front of a Zurich-to-New York flight caught the one smell nobody wants at 30,000 feet: hot electrics. Smoke was seeping into...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In 1947, Convair rolled out an aircraft so large that, three-quarters of a century later, no piston-engined land transport has ever exceeded it. The XC-99 could swallow a hundred thousand pounds of cargo or four hundred troops on its two full decks,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 31 July 1944, a twin-boomed Lightning climbed away from a dusty airfield on Corsica and turned north toward occupied France. At the controls was a 44-year-old French pilot who was really too old, too battered and too famous to be flying combat...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On the afternoon of 26 July 1959, Marine Lt. Col. William Rankin was cruising at 47,000 feet when his fighter’s single engine died with a grinding shudder. He reached up, pulled the ejection handles, and blew himself out of the cockpit into air...
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