Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Avvicinandosi a un Antonov An-22 mentre i motori vengono avviati, non ci si limita a sentirne il rombo, lo si percepisce fisicamente. Quattro dei motori turboelica più potenti mai costruiti fanno girare otto enormi eliche, ciascuna pala descrivendo un cerchio più alto di una casa, e il suono è profondo e lacerante...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 21 marzo 1999, due uomini esausti fecero atterrare un'imponente mongolfiera argentata nel deserto egiziano ed entrarono nella storia. Bertrand Piccard e Brian Jones avevano appena compiuto ciò che i pionieri avevano tentato invano per decenni: sorvolare l'intero pianeta...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Niente motore. Niente carburante per aerei. Niente razzo. Solo un sottile aliante bianco, le cui lunghe ali si nutrono di invisibili fiumi d'aria ascensionale, salendo più in alto di un aereo spia U-2 nel gelido nero della stratosfera. Nel 2018, l'aliante senza motore Perlan 2 ha raggiunto i 76.124 piedi...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
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