Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1947, Convair rolled out an aircraft so large that, three-quarters of a century later, no piston-engined land transport has ever exceeded it. The XC-99 could swallow a hundred thousand pounds of cargo or four hundred troops on its two full decks, and haul them...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
By any measure of raw combat output, Hans-Ulrich Rudel is one of the most extraordinary military pilots who ever lived. He flew 2,530 combat missions, was shot down some thirty times, lost a leg and kept fighting, and was decorated more than any other German...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In December 1941, a German engineer handed the Reich Air Ministry a several-hundred-page report describing a way to bomb New York from the edge of space. The weapon would be launched off a two-mile rail, rocket to the fringe of the atmosphere at some 24 times the...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 9 July 1961, a huge four-engined jet thundered over the Tushino airfield near Moscow, flanked by two MiG-21s. Western observers craned their necks and reached for their notebooks. Here, it seemed, was proof that the Soviet Union had built a supersonic...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 15 novembre 1988, un veicolo spaziale che somigliava quasi esattamente allo Space Shuttle americano si sollevò dal cosmodromo di Baikonur su una colonna di fiamme, compì due orbite intorno alla Terra e atterrò su una pista con un vento laterale di 60 km/h, senza nessuno a bordo e senza...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet climbed at more than 3,600 metres per minute — so fast that Allied bomber crews, seeing it for the first time in the summer of 1944, could scarcely track it. In a single breathtaking arc it could reach the bombers, fire, and be...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Airshow order announcements are usually about aeroplanes. One of the largest deals of Farnborough’s opening day involved no aircraft at all. BOC Aviation, the Singapore-based lessor, signed for as many as 300 CFM LEAP engines — up to 200 LEAP-1A and 100 LEAP-1B....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Two hours out of Rome, somewhere over the south-east of England, Alaska Airlines flight 181 turned around. The Boeing 787-9 had left Fiumicino at 15:45 on Sunday afternoon bound for Seattle, climbed to 34,000 feet and headed north-west across France. Then the track on...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
When the Royal Air Force retired its last Reaper in the autumn of 2025, it did so with a gap in the middle of its capability. The replacement was already flying — the Protector RG Mk 1, sixteen of them on order — but it could not yet legally drop or fire anything. At...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Il 17 maggio 1987, nel 2005, alla fregata lanciamissili USS Stark fu comunicato che un aereo iracheno aveva lasciato la terraferma e si stava dirigendo a sud lungo il Golfo Persico. La cosa non destò preoccupazione. Gli aerei iracheni facevano questo quasi tutte le notti, dando la caccia alle petroliere che trasportavano petrolio iraniano, e...
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