Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Try, today, to fly from Hong Kong to Almaty. You can’t — not directly. You go the long way, connecting through the Gulf, or Istanbul, or Moscow, turning a regional hop into a day-long ordeal. From early 2027, that finally changes. Cathay Pacific has...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Somewhere over western Maryland on Saturday, a private pilot was having an ordinary flight — right up until a fighter jet appeared off the wingtip. Around 12:20 p.m. on 20 June 2026, a small general-aviation aircraft wandered into a Temporary Flight Restriction...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
A football field is 300 feet long. On the morning of 20 June 2026, that was roughly the margin between an ordinary Saturday at Boston Logan and a disaster the whole country would still be talking about. Delta Flight 2351, an Airbus A319 in from Dallas with 135 people...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Here is America’s hypersonic problem in one sentence: the missiles work, but the factory doesn’t. The United States has spent years and billions proving it can build weapons that scream through the sky at more than five times the speed of sound. What it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
There was applause at the gate. On 3 June 2026, as Air Canada flight AC27 pushed back from Toronto Pearson bound for Shanghai, staff and travellers marked the moment with the kind of small ceremony airlines reserve for something that actually matters. A flight had...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Three years ago, SAS was a cautionary tale. The Scandinavian flag carrier was in bankruptcy court, shedding aircraft, and being written off in the trade press as the next great European airline to disappear. In June 2026 it is doing something only a confident airline...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The opening chapter of Wings of War — From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on how military aviation was invented, one breakthrough at a time.It is the first of November, 1911, and a young Italian lieutenant named Giulio Gavotti is flying a flimsy Etrich...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that shares its name...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A catapult launch is one of the most violent things in aviation: zero to flying speed in two seconds, a punch that rattles teeth and bends steel. The General Atomics Mojave skips it entirely. This is a drone big enough to carry missiles — and it can lumber off...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For most of 2026, Boeing was quietly winning. Through the first four months of the year, the American giant had handed over more jets than its European rival, and it looked as though the comeback story was finally taking shape. Then came May — and Airbus took it...
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