Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the missiles know what...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Condividi questa storia Frank Kendall, che ha ricoperto la carica di Segretario dell'Aeronautica degli Stati Uniti da luglio 2021 a gennaio 2025, ha trascorso tre giorni all'inizio di settembre 2026 a sostenere la stessa tesi in tre diverse occasioni: un articolo di opinione sul New York Times il 1° settembre, un'intervista su...
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...
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 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...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story In the autumn of 1980, American engineers strapped thirty rockets to a C-130 Hercules. The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 November 1971, a quiet man in a business suit walked up to the Northwest Orient counter in Portland, Oregon, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle. He gave his name as Dan Cooper. A few hours later he would step out of...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il documento più importante nella storia degli aerei stealth non è stato scritto in California o in un aeroporto segreto nel deserto. È stato scritto a Mosca, in russo, da un fisico sovietico, e l'Unione Sovietica lo ha lasciato circolare all'estero perché ha deciso che il lavoro non era di alcuna...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Share this story For months, Europe’s most ambitious fighter programme had a hole in the middle of it: the money. On July 3, 2026, that hole was filled. The United Kingdom, Italy and Japan signed a £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion) contract to push their sixth-generation...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Share this story Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines,...
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