Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Here’s something the U.S. Navy doesn’t put in the recruitment brochures: the hardest thing a naval aviator will ever do isn’t dogfighting, or dodging surface-to-air missiles, or threading a low-level attack run through a mountain valley. It’s...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On a muggy Florida morning in early June, a modified motorized glider rolled onto the runway at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport and changed the trajectory of electric aviation. At the controls was Miguel Iturmendi — test pilot, company founder, and the kind of person...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Every fighter pilot trains for it. Most pray they’ll never experience it. The moment a jet engine — the machine that keeps you flying at 500 knots and 30,000 feet — stops working. Whether it’s a compressor stall that sounds like a cannon going off behind...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Grumman A-6 Intruder was not fast. It was not pretty. It could not dogfight. What it could do was find a target in zero visibility — in monsoon rain, in fog, at night, in conditions that grounded every other aircraft on the carrier deck — and put bombs on it. For...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The English Electric Lightning was not a sensible aircraft. It burned fuel at a rate that gave ground crews anxiety attacks. It had two Rolls-Royce Avon engines stacked vertically — one on top of the other — inside a fuselage so slim that the only place left for fuel...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
NASA’s X-59 Quesst aircraft has reached the speed and altitude it was built to fly. On June 12, 2026, test pilot Jim “Clue” Less pushed the needle-nosed experimental jet to Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base — the exact conditions...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The U.S. Navy’s next carrier-based fighter just dodged a bullet. After the Pentagon attempted to gut the F/A-XX program in favor of the Air Force’s F-47, Congress has intervened with force — inserting $897.3 million into the FY2026 defense spending bill, a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A decade after Boeing shuttered the C-17 Globemaster III production line in Long Beach, California, the unthinkable is back on the table. Boeing says it is “encouraged” by restart discussions with multiple operators, and the House Armed Services Committee...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Between 1955 and 1957, a B-36 bomber the size of a building flew over Texas and New Mexico with a live nuclear reactor humming in its belly. It was escorted everywhere by a planeload of armed Marines, ready to parachute down and seal off the area if it ever crashed....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 2 novembre 1947, il più grande idrovolante mai costruito si sollevò dalle acque del porto di Long Beach, volò per circa un miglio a un'altitudine di settanta piedi e non volò mai più. In quel singolo minuto, Howard Hughes vinse una disputa che lo aveva quasi distrutto. L'Hughes H-4 Hercules...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Nel 1946, la Marina degli Stati Uniti fece volare un caccia che non riusciva a decidere se appartenere all'era delle eliche o a quella dei jet, quindi li utilizzò entrambi contemporaneamente. Il Ryan XF2R Dark Shark aveva un turboelica nel muso che faceva girare un'elica a quattro pale e un turbogetto nascosto in...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il record di altitudine mai raggiunta da un jet con i propri mezzi non è un record americano e risale a quasi mezzo secolo fa. Il 31 agosto 1977, il pilota collaudatore sovietico Alexandr Fedotov fece salire un MiG-25 a 37.650 metri (123.523 piedi) senza alcun motore a reazione...
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