Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The PZL M-15 Belphegor is the only jet-powered biplane ever put into series...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story The Junkers G.38 had a wing two metres thick at the root. Junkers, being Junkers, looked at that volume and decided it was a waste to fill it with nothing but structure. So they put passengers in it. On the second aircraft, six people sat inside the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Condividi questa storia L'Oceano Pacifico è la più grande formazione terrestre. Nel 1928 nessuno l'aveva ancora sorvolato, e il motivo era puramente aritmetico: le distanze tra i punti di approdo utilizzabili erano superiori a quelle che qualsiasi aereo potesse coprire in modo affidabile, e se si mancava l'isola...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story When Amy Johnson took off from Croydon on 5 May 1930 bound for Australia, she had held a pilot’s licence for ten months and had never flown further than from London to Hull. Her aircraft was a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth with an open...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Condividi questa storia Nel 1926, un operaio di un giacimento petrolifero in Oklahoma si colpì all'occhio sinistro con una scheggia di metallo e lo perse. Sette anni dopo, lo stesso uomo fece il giro del mondo in solitaria in meno di otto giorni, e poi andò alla ricerca dei confini dell'atmosfera. Wiley Post ne ha raccontato una storia...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On 21 October 1929, a flying boat took off from Lake Constance with 169 people aboard. No aircraft had ever carried close to that many. The record would stand for about twenty years. The Dornier Do X had twelve engines mounted above its wing in six...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story On 4 September 2026, an Air China Airbus A330-200 is scheduled to lift off from Beijing, stop for three hours in Bucharest, and continue to Zagreb. When it lands, Croatia will have a scheduled year-round air link to mainland China for the first time....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Two years ago Riyadh Air was a logo and a promise. This week it flew its first passengers to Bangkok — the newest thread in a network that Saudi Arabia intends to stretch across the planet.On September 2, the kingdom’s from-scratch flag...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Some stories are too strange to stay in the news cycle. On Friday, the strangest aviation story of the summer becomes a Netflix documentary. The streamer has fast-tracked a film about the afternoon in July when the President of the United States...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Share this story Volodymyr Zelensky spent the first day of September addressing an audience that is not usually on a wartime president’s list: airline schedulers, flight-planning departments and, pointedly, the underwriters who insure them. In a video address on...
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