Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily swapping the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to confirm what much of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Aer Lingus began 2026 promising its largest-ever transatlantic schedule. It will end the year having quietly dismantled five of its US routes, a retreat that says as much about the economics of the North Atlantic as it does about one Irish carrier. The reset spans...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Alaska Airlines has spent barely sixteen months turning itself from a West Coast workhorse into a transatlantic contender, and it is not slowing down. On 20 August 2026 the Seattle carrier confirmed two new European destinations: Paris and Athens, both launching...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Every modern aircraft carrier shares one strange feature: the landing runway is skewed off to one side, pointing away from the ship’s centreline. It looks like an afterthought. It is actually one of the most important safety inventions in aviation history...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
The passengers on BOAC Flight 911 were promised a treat: a close-up view of Mount Fuji, gleaming under a brilliant blue sky. Minutes later, the sky that looked so calm tore their Boeing 707 apart. The disaster of 5 March 1966 is one of aviation’s starkest...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The video is the kind that makes your stomach drop: a sleek business jet greasing its main wheels onto the runway, then holding its nose in the air for a few long seconds — because there was nothing underneath it to hold the nose up. On 18 August 2026, a NetJets...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For 13 years, if you wanted to fly nonstop from Melbourne to Seoul on Korean Air, you were out of luck. That changes this December. On 19 August 2026, Korean Air confirmed it will resume nonstop Seoul–Melbourne service — its first flights on the route...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
The Gulf’s low-cost giant is about to do something low-cost carriers are not supposed to do: fly a narrowbody, non-stop, five and a half hours to the heart of Europe — every single day. On 19 August 2026, Air Arabia announced a new daily service between...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
At 10,000 metres somewhere between Frankfurt and Rome, Jens Ritter reached up and switched on the internet. The gesture, aboard an Airbus A320neo named “November Mike,” marked the first Lufthansa passenger flight flying with Wi-Fi powered by Starlink...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Switzerland’s first F-35A Lightning II is no longer a set of drawings and contracts. It is now metal. In a hall at Cameri, in the Italian region of Piedmont, the first fuselage section of a Swiss jet has been mated to its first wing — the earliest physical sign...
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