Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four rebuilt engines ran sweetly. Half a century of Arctic exile was about to...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Sabato mattina, 28 luglio 1945. New York è avvolta da una nebbia così fitta che il terzo superiore dell'Empire State Building è semplicemente scomparso. Alle 9:40, gli impiegati del 79° piano sentono un suono che nessun impiegato dovrebbe mai sentire: motori di aereo, vicini e in avvicinamento...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 16 August 1966, an Iraqi Air Force captain named Munir Redfa strapped into his MiG-21F-13 for what his squadron believed was a routine long-range training sortie. He had full fuel tanks — a privilege he had rarely been granted — and a...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Per tre decenni durante la Guerra Fredda, il deterrente nucleare britannico si basò sulle ali di tre straordinari velivoli: il Vickers Valiant, l'Avro Vulcan e l'Handley Page Victor. Conosciuti collettivamente come bombardieri V, erano progettati per trasportare testate atomiche e...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Handley Page Victor was the last and most advanced of Britain’s three V-bombers — and the one with the longest career. Designed to carry nuclear weapons to Moscow at high altitude, it outlived its original mission by decades, reinventing itself as the Royal...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
With 36,183 examples built, the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik is the most-produced military aircraft in history — and arguably the most important ground-attack platform of the Second World War. Soviet infantry called it “the flying tank.” German soldiers called...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers, opened...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was never the fastest, highest-climbing, or most manoeuvrable fighter of the Second World War. What it was, in every theatre from North Africa to China to the Aleutians, was available — and in the hands of pilots who understood its strengths,...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational supersonic bomber — a Mach 2 delta-wing marvel that could outrun every interceptor of its era. It was also one of the most dangerous aircraft in the United States Air Force inventory, killing more than...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On the morning of 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 lifted off from Bandar Abbas International Airport bound for Dubai — a routine 28-minute hop across the Strait of Hormuz. Seven minutes later, the Airbus A300 was falling out of the sky in pieces, struck by two SM-2...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Twenty Sea Harriers sailed south with the Royal Navy task force in April 1982. None of them should have survived. The Argentine Air Force outnumbered them five to one, flew faster jets, and operated from concrete runways while the British pilots launched from pitching...
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