Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1969 the Chinese air force asked for a fighter small enough to be carried on the back of a truck. The idea was that in a war on Chinese soil, airfields would be bombed flat within days. What survived would be whatever could be hidden, dispersed and flown off short...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 21 August 1963 a Tupolev Tu-124 ran out of fuel over the middle of Leningrad, glided for fourteen seconds, cleared a bridge, and landed on the River Neva without killing anybody. A tug that happened to be towing a raft of timber past the spot cast off, came...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets behind their seats....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1965 the Republic of China Air Force built two graves at the Bitan military cemetery outside Taipei. One was for Major Yeh Changti, the other for Major Chang Liyi. Both men had been shot down over communist China. Both had been declared dead. The Central Daily News...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 12 September 1958, the Soviet Union told the United States that it had found the wreck of an American aeroplane in Armenia, and that from the remains discovered there it might be assumed that six crewmen had perished. Seventeen men had been on board. A week later,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 4 December 1956, an Italian test pilot pointed a small silver aeroplane downhill from above 40,000 feet and became the first man to take an Italian-designed, Italian-built aircraft through the sound barrier. The aircraft was the Aerfer Sagittario 2. Two were built....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 30 July 1970, four Israeli Mirages flew a routine photo-reconnaissance profile over the Gulf of Suez. They climbed to 35,000 feet, made the standard radio calls, and flew in a formation so tight that Soviet radar operators read four aircraft as two. They were not...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Nel novembre del 1955 il governo britannico cancellò un progetto per un aereo da trasporto a reazione quadrimotore, la cui costruzione era già stata completata all'80%, con la motivazione che nessuno in Gran Bretagna lo desiderava. Undici mesi dopo, lo stesso governo approvò l'acquisto di quindici Boeing 707 per la sua flotta aerea di Stato...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nell'estate del 1986, il velivolo più grande del mondo si trovava su una rampa a Lakehurst, nel New Jersey, a circa un chilometro e duecento metri dal luogo in cui l'Hindenburg era bruciato. Era lungo 105 metri. Si trattava di un dirigibile della Marina con quattro elicotteri imbullonati al di sotto. Il 1° luglio sollevò un...
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