Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In un pomeriggio di giugno del 1988, davanti a migliaia di spettatori di una manifestazione aerea, un nuovissimo Airbus A320, l'aereo di linea più avanzato al mondo, al suo primo volo passeggeri, effettuò un lento passaggio a bassa quota sopra un piccolo aeroporto francese, per poi immergersi dolcemente tra gli alberi...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nell'ultimo inverno di guerra, con i caccia alleati che mitragliavano gli aeroporti tedeschi quasi a piacimento, gli ingegneri della Heinkel si posero una domanda radicale: e se un caccia non avesse bisogno di alcun aeroporto? La loro risposta, elaborata tra il 1944 e il marzo 1945, fu il Lerche...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Most water bombers are propeller aircraft, and for good reason: they fly low and slow over fires, scooping and dropping in tight mountain valleys. The Beriev Be-200 does it all on jet power. It skims a lake at nearly 220 km/h, swallows 12 tonnes of water in seconds,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that had failed was...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2024, a crimson-and-white flying boat the size of an airliner lifted off a lake on Vancouver Island for the last time. Tens of thousands of people lined the shore. Nine red Snowbirds jets slid into formation alongside her. And a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
A four-engine bomber the length of a swimming pool, painted brilliant white, rolls onto the runway. Its wings are stretched forward like a bird’s. Then four of the most powerful engines ever bolted to a warplane light their afterburners, and roughly 275 tonnes...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
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