Dai bombardieri alle Vespa, fino ai droni.

Dai bombardieri alle Vespa, fino ai droni.

Nella primavera del 1946, in una fabbrica vicino a Pisa che i bombardieri alleati avevano raso al suolo solo pochi mesi prima, un ingegnere tirò fuori una strana macchinetta: uno scooter con telaio a scavalco, carrozzeria arrotondata in acciaio e un piccolo motore nascosto vicino alla ruota posteriore. Enrico Piaggio...
Landing Blind: How Autoland Works

Landing Blind: How Autoland Works

Heathrow, a December morning. The fog is so dense that from the cockpit of a taxiing 777 the crew cannot see their own wingtip. Officially, the runway visual range is 125 metres — about the length of the aircraft plus a bus. And yet, every couple of minutes, 300...
Why Airliners Don’t Fly Over Tibet

Why Airliners Don’t Fly Over Tibet

Pull up a live flight tracker and look at the airways between Europe and East Asia. Hundreds of yellow aircraft icons stream across Siberia, Central Asia, India. And in the middle of it all sits a hole the size of Western Europe with almost nothing in it. That hole is...