Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators fly so often it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
When the An-225 Mriya was destroyed in 2022, the world lost its single largest aircraft. But the West still keeps a giant of its own in the air — one that has been hauling tanks, helicopters and satellites around the planet since before the Moon landings, and is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Ci sono aerei enormi, e poi c'era il Mriya. Mettersi sotto un Boeing 747 ti fa sentire piccolo. Mettersi sotto un An-225 fa sembrare piccolo il 747. Per 33 anni è esistito esattamente uno di questi velivoli: un gigante sovietico a sei motori costruito per un unico...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Nella primavera del 1946, in una fabbrica vicino a Pisa che i bombardieri alleati avevano raso al suolo solo pochi mesi prima, un ingegnere tirò fuori una strana macchinetta: uno scooter con telaio a scavalco, carrozzeria arrotondata in acciaio e un piccolo motore nascosto vicino alla ruota posteriore. Enrico Piaggio...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Seven years after American Airlines walked away from the route, Chicago and Tokyo are about to be joined by a nonstop again — and this time American is flying it with its own metal. Starting 27 March 2027, American will run a daily Boeing 787-9 between Chicago...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On 22 July, a Qatar Airways Boeing 777-200LR will do something no Gulf airline has ever done: land in Venezuela. The flight is QR783, and it does not fly a straight line. It threads Doha to Bogotá to Caracas and back — a single sprawling triangle stitched...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On the morning of 7 August 1919, Parisians near the Champs-Élysées heard an engine where there should have been none. They looked up to see a Nieuport fighter dropping toward the great arch at the head of the avenue — and then, impossibly, threading straight through...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In August 1944, as Allied armies raced across France, a 52-year-old prisoner was put aboard a transport at Drancy bound for the Buchenwald concentration camp. The Vichy regime had already jailed him, together with his wife and children. Now the Nazis were deporting...
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