Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 31 July 1944, a twin-boomed Lightning climbed away from a dusty airfield on Corsica and turned north toward occupied France. At the controls was a 44-year-old French pilot who was really too old, too battered and too famous to be flying combat missions at all. He...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Farnborough 2026 has closed, and for once the headline is not a record. Boeing came out narrowly ahead of Airbus in the order race — but the show’s real story was how modest that race turned out to be. By Reuters’ tally, Boeing booked 173 orders to...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Il caccia stealth polacco è stato finora un prodotto di esportazione americano, costruito a Fort Worth, in Texas, e trasportato oltreoceano. Questa settimana le cose sono cambiate. Il primo F-35A polacco assemblato in Europa, sulla linea di assemblaggio finale di Leonardo a Cameri, in Italia,...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
La presentazione è avvenuta senza un sorvolo, senza il fragore dei postbruciatori. Il secondo giorno del Farnborough International Airshow, BAE Systems ha sollevato il telo da un velivolo grigio opaco, senza coda, delle dimensioni di un addestratore Hawk, e ha regalato alla Gran Bretagna il suo primo aereo sovrano...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Jakarta went shopping for a frontline fighter and came home, instead, with a very clever trainer that shoots back.At Farnborough on 21 July, Leonardo and its Indonesian partner PT ESystem Solutions signed a contract with Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence for 12...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Australia built the Ghost Bat. Europe, it turns out, has been quietly helping all along — and at Farnborough, Boeing finally said so out loud.On 21 July, MQ-28 Program Global Director Glen Ferguson confirmed that Italy’s Leonardo has become an official...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Dal punto di vista militare, Suez funzionò. In sei giorni, la potenza aerea anglo-francese distrusse gran parte dell'aviazione egiziana a terra, i paracadutisti conquistarono un aeroporto, i Royal Marines effettuarono il primo assalto con elicotteri nella storia della guerra e la forza d'invasione mantenne il controllo dell'estremità settentrionale di...
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...
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