Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Some aeroplanes shout. The Percival Mew Gull whispered — a slip of a thing, barely twenty feet long, its wings not much wider than a family car, built almost entirely of wood and glue in a shed at Gravesend. You could have mistaken it for a toy. And yet, through...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Some aeroplanes are designed. The Lockheed Constellation looks like it was sculpted — by someone who had been told, sternly, that a machine carrying forty people across an ocean had no business being ugly. That curved, dolphin-backed fuselage. Those three tail...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On 24 May 1928, a silver airship called the Italia circled the top of the world. Below her lay the North Pole, and her crew dropped an Italian flag, a banner from Milan and a small wooden cross onto the endless white. It was a triumph. It should have been the story....
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Somewhere over the Channel, in a slick of oil and cold grey swell, a fighter pilot is treading water and losing the argument with hypothermia. He hears it before he sees it: a slow, clattering drone, an aeroplane that looks less like it is flying and more like it is...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes for 2027. The hub...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Il 21 marzo 1999, due uomini esausti fecero atterrare un'imponente mongolfiera argentata nel deserto egiziano ed entrarono nella storia. Bertrand Piccard e Brian Jones avevano appena compiuto ciò che i pionieri avevano tentato invano per decenni: sorvolare l'intero pianeta...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Niente motore. Niente carburante per aerei. Niente razzo. Solo un sottile aliante bianco, le cui lunghe ali si nutrono di invisibili fiumi d'aria ascensionale, salendo più in alto di un aereo spia U-2 nel gelido nero della stratosfera. Nel 2018, l'aliante senza motore Perlan 2 ha raggiunto i 76.124 piedi...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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