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...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story She would climb to around four thousand metres, roll the Stuka onto its back, and put it into a near-vertical dive to test the brakes and the sight she had helped design. Then she would do it again. On a good day, fifteen times. Melitta von...
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...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Look at a Blohm & Voss BV 141 head-on and your brain files a complaint. The engine and the tail are on the left. The crew sit in a glass pod on the right. There is no fuselage in the middle, because there is no middle. It looks like two different...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Condividi questa storia Nessun aereo è mai sembrato più veloce da fermo. Il Douglas X-3 Stiletto era lungo sessantasette piedi come un ago, con un muso che avresti potuto usare per aprire le lettere e ali così piccole da sembrare un ripensamento. Tutto in esso prometteva Mach 2. Esso...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story On 2 June 1944, B-17s of the Fifteenth Air Force bombed marshalling yards in Hungary and then kept going east. They landed in Ukraine, at three Soviet airfields the Red Army had handed over to the Americans. It was the first time in the war that a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story The runway at RAF Lyneham on the morning of 22 July 1966 held one of the least likely aeroplanes in Britain: a Lightning interceptor with no canopy, a disarmed ejection seat, its undercarriage pinned down, and a man in the cockpit who was wearing no...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service for seventy years and is on course to fly for a hundred. It has outlasted the Soviet Union, the propeller, and most of the engineers who designed it. And the design that made all of that possible...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
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