Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Share this story A fighter pilot pulling 7G in a turning engagement has roughly three seconds to acquire a target, compute a firing solution, and press the trigger. Looking down at cockpit instruments during those three seconds means looking away from the threat — and...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Share this story China has grounded all general aviation nationwide — private light aircraft, business jets, flight schools, parachute clubs, and glider operations — after a small single-engine plane crashed into the CITIC Tower in central Beijing on...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
L'aereo X-59 QueSST della NASA, diretto discendente del programma SSBD, ha superato la barriera del suono per la prima volta nel giugno 2026, progettato per produrre un lieve tonfo invece di un fragoroso tuono. (NASA) Se avete mai visto una foto del Shaped Sonic Boom...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Cinquant'anni fa, il 1° luglio 1976, il National Air and Space Museum dello Smithsonian aprì le sue porte sul National Mall di Washington, DC. Fu un dono per il bicentenario a una nazione che aveva appena portato l'uomo sulla Luna, vinto la corsa allo spazio e costruito un...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Il 10 marzo 2026, oltre 400 clienti, partner e dirigenti del settore aeronautico si sono riuniti in un nuovo capannone di produzione a Bordeaux-Mérignac per la presentazione ufficiale del Falcon 10X da parte di Dassault Aviation: il business jet più grande, con la maggiore autonomia e tecnologicamente avanzato di sempre.
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