Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Fourteen years ago, AirAsia X tried to do something that sober aviation economists said couldn’t be done: fly a budget airline halfway around the planet. It ran low-cost long-haul flights from Kuala Lumpur to London and Paris — and in 2012, bruised by fuel bills and...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Every so often, a clip resurfaces online claiming that the Hollywood star Emma Stone made history as “the first civilian to fly in an F-22 Raptor.” It collects millions of views, a flurry of amazed comments, and the occasional breathless re-share. It is also...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
It is a fifteen-hour thread stitching two of the planet’s busiest innovation hubs back together. From October 25, 2026, El Al will once again fly nonstop between Tel Aviv and San Francisco — reconnecting Israel and Silicon Valley directly for the first time since...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On 10 June 2026, a Boeing 787-9 in a striking deep-violet livery rolled to a stop at London Heathrow. For most travellers it was just another widebody from the Gulf. For the aviation industry, it was the moment a three-year-old PowerPoint finally became a real...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On 2 June 2026, a bare green-primer jet lifted off from Toulouse, climbed past 41,000 feet, and flew for three hours and forty-three minutes before coming home. It wore no airline colours yet — just a working title stencilled down the fuselage: “First A350-1000ULR for...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
On a muggy Florida morning in early June, a modified motorized glider rolled onto the runway at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport and changed the trajectory of electric aviation. At the controls was Miguel Iturmendi — test pilot, company founder, and the kind of person...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
NASA’s X-59 Quesst aircraft has reached the speed and altitude it was built to fly. On June 12, 2026, test pilot Jim “Clue” Less pushed the needle-nosed experimental jet to Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base — the exact conditions...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
The U.S. Navy’s next carrier-based fighter just dodged a bullet. After the Pentagon attempted to gut the F/A-XX program in favor of the Air Force’s F-47, Congress has intervened with force — inserting $897.3 million into the FY2026 defense spending bill, a...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
A decade after Boeing shuttered the C-17 Globemaster III production line in Long Beach, California, the unthinkable is back on the table. Boeing says it is “encouraged” by restart discussions with multiple operators, and the House Armed Services Committee...
Aviazione militare, Notizia
China appears to be flight-testing not one but two sixth-generation fighters at once — and the lesser-known of the pair just resurfaced in fresh 2026 imagery. New footage and images circulating from facilities linked to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation show what...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
Royal Air Maroc is about to put Casablanca on the nonstop map to Los Angeles — and the timing is no accident. Morocco’s flag carrier is launching a Casablanca–Los Angeles route, flown three times a week on the Boeing 787, just as the 2026 World Cup...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia
After a decade of promises, the electric air taxi is finally about to carry paying passengers in the United States — and it could happen this summer. The two front-runners have cleared the hardest gates yet. Joby Aviation has reached stage four of the...
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