Aviazione militare, Notizia
Negli anni '60, i satelliti spia americani che scrutavano il Mar Caspio riportarono immagini di qualcosa che non avrebbe dovuto esistere: un ibrido tra nave e aereo, lungo 92 metri e alimentato da un motore a reazione, che sfrecciava sull'acqua a 500 km/h. La CIA lo chiamò il Mostro del Mar Caspio. I sovietici...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
L'elicottero Bell AH-1 Cobra è il progetto di elicottero più significativo nella storia militare americana. Prima del Cobra, ogni elicottero armato al mondo era una cellula da trasporto con armi imbullonate sopra: un Huey con mitragliatrici sulle porte, un Mi-4 con lanciarazzi, un Wessex con...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
Quando due velivoli si scontrano in volo, come è accaduto di recente con un EA-18G Growler presso la base aerea di Mountain Home, il campo di detriti può estendersi per chilometri. Pezzi di alluminio, cavi e componenti avionici si disperdono sul terreno in schemi che a un osservatore inesperto possono sembrare casuali...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
On May 19, 2026, the United States Air Force ordered an operational pause for its entire fleet of T-38 Talon jet trainers. Every T-38 across every command—Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Force Global...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is an aircraft that first flew when Harry Truman was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Bill Allen, Boeing’s president, was watching the hydroplane races on Lake Washington from a company yacht on 7 August 1955. The new Boeing 367-80 — the prototype of what would become the 707 — was scheduled to fly overhead in a demonstration for potential airline...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On August 3, 1945, a Japanese test pilot named Masayoshi Tsuruno climbed into the strangest fighter prototype Japan had ever built and pushed the throttle forward. The aircraft trundled along the runway at Kyūshū Aircraft Company’s Mushiroda Airfield, lifted its...
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