Aviazione militare, Notizia
On May 19, 2026, the United States Air Force ordered an operational pause for its entire fleet of T-38 Talon jet trainers. Every T-38 across every command—Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Force Global...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Every aircraft has a logbook. And every logbook tells a story—usually about hydraulic leaks, faulty warning lights, and the slow entropy of flying machines held together by rivets, regulations, and sheer maintenance crew willpower. But hidden among the technical...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is an aircraft that first flew when Harry Truman was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
In late April 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise complaints. No two-hour...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase. In 2026, that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven long-haul, twelve...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150 knots is unusual....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Sun Country Airlines non si sarebbe mai aspettata di diventare un caso di studio per l'industria aeronautica. Fondata nel 1982 da piloti della Braniff licenziati, per trent'anni ha operato silenziosamente con voli charter per sciatori da Minneapolis-Saint Paul, pacchetti turistici per Las Vegas e occasionali trasferimenti per le partite di football universitario (NCAA)...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
La maggior parte delle compagnie aeree africane ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di sopravvivere. Ethiopian Airlines ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di superare in crescita tutte le altre compagnie aeree del continente, e anche qualcuna al di fuori di esso. La compagnia con sede ad Addis Abeba trasporta più passeggeri internazionali di qualsiasi altra...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Alla base aerea di Dyess ad Abilene, in Texas, un B-1B Lancer che aveva trascorso anni nel cimitero degli aerei in Arizona è tornato sulla pista di volo nel maggio 2026, appena riverniciato e con un nome che sembra il titolo di un sequel inaspettato: "Apocalypse II". Numero di serie...
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