Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On the evening of 27 May 1919, a lumbering four-engine flying boat descended through the Atlantic haze and touched down on the Tagus Estuary outside Lisbon, Portugal. Its hull was salt-stained. Its crew of six had not slept properly in two days. And with that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Atlas Air is the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters. The carrier flies more 747-8Fs and 747-400s than any other airline on Earth. The 747 is, in many ways, the brand. So when Atlas walks into Toulouse and signs a $7-billion order for 20 firm and...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The aircraft is the size of a Cessna 172 but flies itself. There is no pilot. There is no cockpit. There is no second seat for an emergency manual override. Pyka’s Pelican Cargo just took off, flew a 200-kilometre route over central California, and landed itself...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In 1936, American Airlines president C.R. Smith made an audacious request to Donald Douglas: build an airliner that could carry passengers across America in 16 hours and make money doing it. The result was the Douglas DC-3 — an aircraft so well-designed that it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
He failed five times. Each time, he climbed into a capsule smaller than a garden shed, was lifted to 35,000 feet by a balloon the size of a 14-storey building, and tried to navigate the unpredictable jet streams around the entire planet. Each time, weather, equipment...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On New Year’s Day 1914, a crowd gathered on the waterfront in St. Petersburg, Florida, to watch history. A Benoist XIV flying boat — a wood-and-canvas biplane with a pusher propeller and a hull designed to land on water — taxied out across Tampa Bay. In the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 2 May 1952, a British Overseas Airways Corporation de Havilland Comet lifted off from London Heathrow and flew to Johannesburg. It carried 36 passengers in pressurised comfort at 35,000 feet, cruising at 500 mph — twice the speed of any existing airliner. The jet...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In 1921, no flight school in the United States would take her. Not because she lacked ability — she hadn’t been given the chance to prove it. They turned her away because she was Black, and because she was a woman. So Bessie Coleman learned French, saved her...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
La mattina del 19 ottobre 1901, una piccola gondola aperta sospesa sotto un pallone aerostatico a forma di sigaro, circumnavigò la Torre Eiffel a bassa quota, si raddrizzò sopra la Senna e attraccò all'aeroporto di Saint-Cloud in un tempo di 29 minuti e 30 secondi.
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 26 luglio 2016, uno strano, lento e silenzioso velivolo atterrò all'aeroporto internazionale di Abu Dhabi, completando un viaggio iniziato 16 mesi prima nello stesso aeroporto. Solar Impulse 2 aveva appena circumnavigato la Terra, attraversando l'Asia, l'Oceano Pacifico, il Nord America...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 4 ottobre 2004, nel 47° anniversario dello Sputnik, un piccolo aereo bianco si è innalzato a 112 chilometri sopra il deserto del Mojave, ha raggiunto brevemente lo spazio ed è tornato sano e salvo sulla Terra. Era il terzo volo di questo tipo in cinque giorni. Il pilota era diverso ogni volta, ma...
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