Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Munich Airport has had a nervous week. On the evening of 17 August 2026, a Lufthansa Airbus A380 arriving from San Francisco touched down short of its runway and ploughed through the approach lighting at the threshold. All 351 people on board were unhurt, and the...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
For thirty years, the sound of Finland’s air defence has been the twin-engine howl of the F/A-18 Hornet. Now the clock on that sound has started ticking down. As Finland’s first F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters move through training in the United...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In November 1983, a 31-year-old Quebec pilot landed a light aircraft by himself at a small airfield in Georgia. It was loaded with marijuana, flown up from Jamaica. Police were waiting.He was sentenced to five years and served sixteen months. He walked out on 20 March...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Aviazione militare
In 2025 the world spent $2,887 billion on its armed forces. That is the highest figure SIPRI has ever recorded, the eleventh consecutive annual increase, and it works out at $352 for every person alive.Below is what that money bought, counted as carefully as open...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
Ninety seconds before he put an Airbus A320 into a river, Chesley Sullenberger said something entirely ordinary. It was 3:26 in the afternoon on 15 January 2009, the aircraft was climbing away from LaGuardia, and he looked left out of the window. “What a view of...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The cargo compartment of a C-5A Galaxy is the size of a small warehouse. On the afternoon of 4 April 1975, the crew at Tan Son Nhut filled the lower deck of one with cardboard boxes, and into the boxes they put babies — two and three to a box, strapped down with...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Last year the Middle East’s airlines made $7.2 billion. This year they are on track to lose $4.3 billion. That is an eleven-and-a-half-billion-dollar swing in twelve months, and it makes the Gulf the only major airline region on earth expected to finish 2026 in...
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