Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At noon on 18 February 1944, the guards of Amiens prison sat down to lunch, as they did every day. Outside, snow lay deep across Picardy and the sky was a low grey ceiling. Inside the cruciform building, behind a three-and-a-half-metre perimeter wall, were hundreds of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Off the south coast of England, a small black flying wing shot off a catapult rail bolted to the deck of a moving Royal Navy ship, climbed away on a whining turbojet, and flew itself to a target. No pilot, no recovery, no second chances — the Nyan is designed to fly...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Somewhere over central France in the late 1950s, test pilot André Turcat pushes a strange delta-winged aircraft past the speed where a normal jet engine begins to gasp for air. And that is when the Nord Griffon comes alive. Behind him, a ramjet the size of a small...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military airshow in the world....
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For decades, one rule has sat quietly at the centre of Western air power: a human being decides when a weapon kills. On June 30, 2026, Britain edged away from it. Buried inside a sweeping Defence Investment Plan — more than £5 billion for drones, the largest such...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Per mesi, il programma di caccia più ambizioso d'Europa ha avuto un buco al centro: i fondi. Il 3 luglio 2026, quel buco è stato colmato. Il Regno Unito, l'Italia e il Giappone hanno firmato un contratto da 4,6 miliardi di sterline (14 miliardi di euro e 6,1 miliardi di yen) per portare avanti il loro aereo da combattimento di sesta generazione...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For 44 years, the deep rumble of Boeing E-3A Sentries out of Geilenkirchen has been the sound of NATO watching its own skies. Now, according to a Reuters report published on 2 July, the alliance is preparing to hand that job to a jet from a country that only joined...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
China has grounded all general aviation nationwide — private light aircraft, business jets, flight schools, parachute clubs, and glider operations — after a small single-engine plane crashed into the CITIC Tower in central Beijing on 26 June 2026. The ban, which has...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion Defence Investment...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) on display at NATO Days 2023 in the Czech Republic. The aircraft has rapidly gained traction with European air forces. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2026, Embraer and Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On 10 March 2026, more than 400 customers, partners, and aviation executives gathered in a new production hall at Bordeaux-Mérignac as Dassault Aviation pulled the curtain on the Falcon 10X — the largest, longest-ranged, and most technologically advanced business jet...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the afternoon of 6 April 1965, test pilot Roland “Bee” Beamont was having lunch at a pub near Boscombe Down when the BBC news bulletin came through the radio. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, midway through his Budget Speech in the House of...
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