Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
American Airlines flies more aircraft than almost anyone on Earth, yet it has quietly backed itself into a corner over the ocean. Its long-haul order book has dwindled to just 19 jets. Now the airline is preparing to fix that — and the most interesting part of the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 14 December 1986, a spindly aircraft made almost entirely of paper, glue, and carbon fibre wobbled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base with so much fuel aboard that its wingtips dragged on the concrete, damaging the winglets. Nine days, three minutes, and 44...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Update: This article provides the latest on the investigation into the Lufthansa 787 nose gear collapse at Frankfurt Airport. For our initial coverage, see Brand-New Lufthansa 787 Drops on Its Nose. Germany’s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On Wednesday evening, a factory-fresh Airbus slipped onto the runway at Tampa International after ten hours over the North Atlantic. No water-cannon salute, no press conference — United and Airbus didn’t even put out a statement. But make no mistake: the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For nine years, one subfleet of Emirates A380s held a record nobody else wanted: 615 seats, the densest passenger configuration ever flown on a commercial aircraft. Two classes, no frills up top — just row after row of economy stretching across both decks of the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
The de Havilland Comet was beautiful. Sleek, four-engined, impossibly quiet compared to the propliners it replaced. On 2 May 1952, BOAC Comet G-ALYP departed London for Johannesburg — the world’s first scheduled jet airline service. Passengers sipped champagne...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
It is January 1921, and a crowd has gathered on the shore of Lago Maggiore near Sesto Calende. They are staring at a houseboat. Or a cathedral. Or perhaps a floating lumber yard that has sprouted wings — nine of them — and eight bellowing American engines. The thing...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
The model sat in a cavernous hangar in Seattle, gleaming under fluorescent lights like a promise made in aluminum. It was 1969, and Boeing had built a full-sized mockup of the 2707 — America’s supersonic transport, 306 feet long, with a drooped nose borrowed...
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