Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Militarily, Suez worked. In six days, Anglo-French air power destroyed the Egyptian Air Force largely on the ground, paratroops took an airfield, Royal Marines made the first helicopter assault in the history of warfare, and the invasion force held the northern end of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On the morning of 16 July, two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoons met in European airspace and took fuel from a French A330 Phenix tanker. No weapons were carried. The manoeuvres were unremarkable. Any air force in NATO does this on a quiet Tuesday....
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly recorded it as the first...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally said out loud that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The fiercest duel at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow will not be flown by any display pilot. It will be fought across a conference table, over roughly one hundred single-aisle jets and the signature of one Dublin-based leasing giant.Boeing and Airbus are...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Canada already knows what its next fighter looks like: the F-35A, dozens of which are on order. And yet Ottawa has just reached for a very different aircraft — one being designed in London, Rome and Tokyo. Reporting on July 15 said Canada has agreed to join the Global...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
It was fitting that the promise came in Paris. On 14 July — France’s national day — President Emmanuel Macron stood alongside Volodymyr Zelensky at the close of a “Coalition of the Willing” summit and announced that Ukraine had agreed a plan to acquire 16 Rafale...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Alle 10:25 del mattino del 14 luglio, la Patrouille de France ha sfilato sull'Arco di Trionfo srotolando tre nastri blu, bianchi e rossi lungo gli Champs-Élysées. Dietro di loro si è riversato un fiume di getti d'acqua. E per la prima volta nella lunga storia della Francia...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
I passeggeri del volo Virgin Atlantic VS135 sono saliti a bordo a Heathrow lunedì pomeriggio aspettandosi palme e parchi a tema. Cinque ore dopo sono scesi dalla stessa rampa di scale nello stesso aeroporto di Londra, non più vicini a Orlando di quanto non lo fossero all'inizio, ma comunque...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Ottawa has made a choice that says as much about politics as it does about firepower. Canada will arm its future F-35A fleet with the Joint Strike Missile, the Norwegian-built cruise weapon that tucks inside the Lightning II’s belly without spoiling its stealth. Prime...
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