Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable year. Not one of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown, more than a third...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only credible direct...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The air taxi revolution has a problem, and it’s not the aircraft. Joby Aviation has flown from JFK to Manhattan in seven minutes. Archer Aviation has been named the official eVTOL provider for Belgrade’s Expo 2027. FAA type certification is in the final...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Every aircraft has a logbook. And every logbook tells a story—usually about hydraulic leaks, faulty warning lights, and the slow entropy of flying machines held together by rivets, regulations, and sheer maintenance crew willpower. But hidden among the technical...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
In late April 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise complaints. No two-hour...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase. In 2026, that...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven long-haul, twelve...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Sun Country Airlines non si sarebbe mai aspettata di diventare un caso di studio per l'industria aeronautica. Fondata nel 1982 da piloti della Braniff licenziati, per trent'anni ha operato silenziosamente con voli charter per sciatori da Minneapolis-Saint Paul, pacchetti turistici per Las Vegas e occasionali trasferimenti per le partite di football universitario (NCAA)...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
La maggior parte delle compagnie aeree africane ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di sopravvivere. Ethiopian Airlines ha trascorso l'ultimo decennio cercando di superare in crescita tutte le altre compagnie aeree del continente, e anche qualcuna al di fuori di esso. La compagnia con sede ad Addis Abeba trasporta più passeggeri internazionali di qualsiasi altra...
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