Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
It took the internet roughly ten minutes. On 19 May 2026, the National Transportation Safety Board opened its public docket on the crash of UPS Flight 2976 and, among thousands of pages, included a single PDF: a spectrogram, a visual graph of the sound captured by the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In September 1949, the largest land-based aircraft in the world took to the skies over southwest England. The Bristol Brabazon was a colossus — its 230-foot wingspan exceeded that of a modern Boeing 747. It was powered by eight radial engines coupled in pairs to drive...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Somewhere outside the Siberian town of Abakan, in the Republic of Khakassia, there is a packed-snow airstrip about 200 metres long. It is the only way to get into a village called Nizhny Kurlugash in the winter months. The strip is serviced, twice a week, by a...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Beauty in aviation is a real engineering property. The aircraft that pilots, photographers, and aviation historians consistently call the most beautiful are not pretty by accident — they are pretty because every line, every fairing, every panel break is doing work....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For nearly fifty years it sat in someone’s storage closet — a small, wooden, surprisingly fragile model of an interstellar starship. This week, the Roddenberry Archive gave the public its first detailed look at the original 33-inch prototype of the USS...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
VietJet Air just dropped a new line on the world’s long-haul map — and it runs straight from Hanoi to Prague. Starting 10 October 2026, the Vietnamese low-cost carrier will fly an Airbus A330 twice a week between Vietnam’s capital and the Czech Republic,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On the back of an early Boeing 737-200’s Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine, just behind the exhaust plug, are two big curved aluminium-honeycomb panels. In normal flight they wrap around the rear of the engine and look like the back end of the nacelle itself. On...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In Ulyanovsk on the Volga, in 1973, a Soviet-Italian film crew built a road. Not a real road for cars. A road-coloured runway, marked up with traffic paint, complete with painted Lada-grey lane lines and roadside signs in Cyrillic, all of it laid down across a reserve...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
A .30 calibre bullet hits a fuel tank at 800 metres per second. The aluminium skin punctures. A jet of avgas blows out under pressure, into the slipstream, towards a hot turbocharger exhaust. The aircraft, on most tanks built before 1939, is now thirty seconds from...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Tutti coloro che costruiscono eVTOL — Joby, Archer, il fantasma di Lilium, il fantasma di Volocopter, Eve, Vertical Aerospace — si trovano ad affrontare lo stesso problema di cui nessuno vuole parlare: anche se si riesce a costruire il velivolo, dove, esattamente, atterra in una città? Il...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
La mattina dell'8 maggio 2026, un Airbus A330-900neo della Garuda Indonesia, con registrazione PK-GHI, è decollato da Gedda con il volo GA4208 diretto a Medan, in Indonesia, riportando a casa i pellegrini dell'Hajj. La rotta attraversa il Mar Arabico e l'India meridionale prima di virare verso sud-est...
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