Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In December 1931, a cocky 21-year-old RAF pilot named Douglas Bader tried a low, showy roll in his biplane, clipped a wingtip on the grass, and crashed. Surgeons took his right leg above the knee that day, and his left below the knee months later. His flying career,...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the afternoon of 26 July 1959, Marine Lt. Col. William Rankin was cruising at 47,000 feet when his fighter’s single engine died with a grinding shudder. He reached up, pulled the ejection handles, and blew himself out of the cockpit into air nearly sixty...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 12 August 1944, a 29-year-old naval aviator climbed into a Liberator bomber that had been stripped of its guns and filled, wingtip to wingtip, with explosives. He did not have to be there. He had flown his tour and earned his ticket home. His name...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
At the height of the Battle of Britain, with his fighter pilots being blamed for the bombers falling out of the sky, a young German ace was asked by the head of the Luftwaffe what he needed to turn things around. Adolf Galland, cigar clenched in his teeth, gave an...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The message came from Air Operations Command in Jakarta, and for the ninety-five men and women of Skadron Udara 15 it meant something none of them had done before: pack up five jets, cross the Arafura Sea, and go fly with the world.For the first time, the Indonesian...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed Iranian one-way attack...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April 1980. On...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Quando venerdì scorso i missili iraniani hanno colpito una base aerea nella Giordania orientale uccidendo militari americani, la base è stata identificata in ogni rapporto con il suo nome: Muwaffaq Salti. Quasi nessuno al di fuori della Giordania sa chi fosse. Era un primo tenente della Royal Air Force...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
La valle di A Shau, 10 marzo 1966. Un campo delle forze speciali è sotto attacco da parte di duemila soldati regolari nordvietnamiti. Le colline su entrambi i lati si ergono per millecinquecento piedi e la base delle nuvole è a ottocento, il che significa che qualsiasi aereo in arrivo per i soccorsi deve volare al di sotto...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Tutti sanno chi per primo ha infranto la barriera del suono: Chuck Yeager, nell'ottobre del 1947, con il Bell X-1 arancione, una costola fissata con un manico di scopa. È una delle grandi storie dell'aviazione. Ma c'è un secondo nome che merita di essere ricordato: quello di un tranquillo ingegnere del Tennessee...
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