Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On August 3, 1945, a Japanese test pilot named Masayoshi Tsuruno climbed into the strangest fighter prototype Japan had ever built and pushed the throttle forward. The aircraft trundled along the runway at Kyūshū Aircraft Company’s Mushiroda Airfield, lifted its...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
If you ever stand in front of the gigantic Cold War hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, you will see, parked between an XB-70 Valkyrie and a YF-12, something that looks like it landed there yesterday — a domed metal disc,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1960, in a hangar at the Bell Aircraft plant at Niagara Falls, New York, Bell unveiled the wildest single-seat fighter ever proposed by an American manufacturer. It had a needle-nosed fuselage, two wing-tip nacelles that could swivel through 100 degrees, and a...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase. In 2026, that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven long-haul, twelve...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 10 September 1956, in the high desert above Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation's chief test pilot Bob Baker pushed the throttle of an aircraft nobody outside the U.S. Air Force fighter procurement office had ever heard of into afterburner. The...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In late 1958, in the high Texas sky over Naval Air Station Dallas, Vought's chief test pilot John Konrad flew an aircraft that could outmanoeuvre, outclimb, outrun and outturn the future F-4 Phantom II. The aircraft had a single engine. It had no radar operator....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Seventy-four years ago today — 19 May 1952 — at Edwards Air Force Base in the high California desert, Grumman test pilot Corwin “Corky” Meyer climbed into the cockpit of an aircraft so strange that nobody else in the U.S. Navy was qualified to...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150 knots is unusual....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 18 June 1914 — ten years and six months after Orville Wright lifted off Kitty Hawk — a 21-year-old American named Lawrence Burst Sperry flew a Curtiss C-2 biplane down the Seine at 50 feet above the water in front of a crowd of astonished Parisians....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Sun Country Airlines non si sarebbe mai aspettata di diventare un caso di studio per l'industria aeronautica. Fondata nel 1982 da piloti della Braniff licenziati, per trent'anni ha operato silenziosamente con voli charter per sciatori da Minneapolis-Saint Paul, pacchetti turistici per Las Vegas e occasionali trasferimenti per le partite di football universitario (NCAA)...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
La maggior parte delle compagnie aeree africane ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di sopravvivere. Ethiopian Airlines ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di superare in crescita tutte le altre compagnie aeree del continente, e anche qualcuna al di fuori di esso. La compagnia con sede ad Addis Abeba trasporta più passeggeri internazionali di qualsiasi altra...
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