Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On a summer day in 1965, workers and fishermen along the Ob River near Novosibirsk heard a scream of jet engines and looked up just in time to see something their minds could barely accept: a MiG-17 fighter, flashing low over the water — and then vanishing under the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
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...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
When the An-225 Mriya was destroyed in 2022, the world lost its single largest aircraft. But the West still keeps a giant of its own in the air — one that has been hauling tanks, helicopters and satellites around the planet since before the Moon landings, and is...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In the history of fighter aircraft, almost nobody remembers the runner-up. The jet that loses the competition gets a museum plaque, if it is lucky, and the winner gets the production line. The Northrop YF-17 Cobra is the great exception. It lost — and then went on to...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Ci sono aerei enormi, e poi c'era il Mriya. Mettersi sotto un Boeing 747 ti fa sentire piccolo. Mettersi sotto un An-225 fa sembrare piccolo il 747. Per 33 anni è esistito esattamente uno di questi velivoli: un gigante sovietico a sei motori costruito per un unico...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the afternoon of 26 October 2001, Boeing chairman Phil Condit stood with his Joint Strike Fighter chief, Frank Statkus, in front of a television carrying a live feed from the Pentagon. The largest defence contract in history — one stealth fighter for four armed...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico Piaggio walked...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Pakistan is on course to fly something no air force outside China has ever operated: a Chinese stealth fighter. The Pakistan Air Force has moved to acquire the Shenyang J-35 — reportedly up to 40 jets — in what would be the first export sale of a Chinese...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot across the bows...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2 bomber. The...
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