Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation “firsts” the way other...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion did something so...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match them. That gap is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Nel pomeriggio del 24 novembre 1971, un uomo tranquillo in abito da lavoro si avvicinò allo sportello della Northwest Orient a Portland, in Oregon, e pagò in contanti un biglietto di sola andata per Seattle. Dichiarò di chiamarsi Dan Cooper. Poche ore dopo sarebbe sceso dal retro di un...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Alle Olimpiadi di Berlino del 1936, un adolescente scozzese ebbe l'opportunità di volare con un asso dell'aviazione della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Durante l'atterraggio, il tedesco disse al ragazzo due cose: imparare a volare e imparare il tedesco. Il ragazzo fece entrambe le cose e, una volta cresciuto, pilotò più aerei diversi di chiunque altro al mondo...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
La maggior parte dei piloti da caccia segue lo stesso percorso stretto: scuola di volo, nomina a ufficiale, cabina di pilotaggio prima ancora di avere l'età per noleggiare un'auto senza sovrapprezzo. Kenneth Gilmore ha iniziato grazie a un programma di football americano. Prima ancora di provare le forze G, disegnava schemi di gioco su un...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
For a week in the summer of 1976, more than a hundred people sat on the floor of a disused airport terminal in the heart of Africa, four thousand kilometres from home, and waited to find out whether they would be murdered. They had been separated — Israelis and Jews...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Gate 15 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a few minutes past midnight on the last day of August 1983. A Boeing 747 sits in the floodlights, doors open, while 246 passengers file aboard: businessmen bound for Taipei and Hong Kong, honeymooners, grandparents,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky, foreign parachutists...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The sirens came before the sunrise. In Manama’s old quarters and along Kuwait City’s waterfront towers, the same rising wail that Gulf residents have learned by heart this year pulled families out of bed and into stairwells in the small hours of Wednesday...
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...
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