Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On 11 July 1949, a seaplane carrying Jacqueline Auriol — daughter-in-law of the French President — crashed on the Seine near Paris. She was pulled from the wreckage with catastrophic facial injuries. Surgeons rebuilt her face through more than twenty operations spread...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Alla base aerea di Dyess ad Abilene, in Texas, un B-1B Lancer che aveva trascorso anni nel cimitero degli aerei in Arizona è tornato sulla pista di volo nel maggio 2026, appena riverniciato e con un nome che sembra il titolo di un sequel inaspettato: "Apocalypse II". Numero di serie...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
On a grey Welsh morning in early May, hikers lining the ridges above Cadair Idris heard the unmistakable rumble of twin Pratt & Whitney F100 engines reverberating off granite walls. Then it appeared: an F-15E Strike Eagle wearing a paint scheme that had not graced...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende
In early May 2026, a deplaning incident at Newark Liberty International Airport became the latest flashpoint in America’s turbulent relationship with air travel etiquette — but with a twist no one expected. The woman at the center of the controversy filmed and...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare, Notizia
Sulla carta, il C-5 Galaxy è il velivolo da trasporto militare più performante mai costruito dal mondo occidentale. In pratica, in un qualsiasi giorno del 2025, il 63% della flotta è guasto. Questa percentuale – il 37% è operativo – non è un errore di arrotondamento né una statistica...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Jacqueline Cochran grew up as an orphan in rural Florida, picking cotton and sleeping on the floor of a shack. By 40, she held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any other pilot alive — male or female. The distance between those two facts was covered...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
By 1939 the biplane was supposed to be finished. Monoplane fighters — the Bf 109, the Spitfire, the Hurricane — were establishing what air combat in World War II would look like. And yet the Soviet Union was, that same year, accepting deliveries of a new biplane...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
In 1960 the Convair B-58 Hustler was, by every measurable standard, the most advanced combat aircraft on Earth. It could sustain Mach 2 — a speed contemporary fighters could reach only in short dashes. It carried a thermonuclear weapon in a detachable streamlined pod...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
It is the kind of idea that should never have left the napkin. Take a small tank, weighing roughly 5.5 tonnes. Bolt on a biplane-style wing and a twin-boom tail. Tow the assembly into the air behind a heavy bomber. Cast it off over enemy lines. Let the tank glide...
Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare
Florence Leontine Lowe grew up on a Pasadena estate so grand it employed 26 servants. She married a minister at 18, had a son, and then, in 1928, dressed as a man and escaped on a banana boat to Mexico under the name “Pancho.” She was 26 years old and she...
Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende, All'interno di MiGFlug
Before the rockets. Before the electric cars became mainstream. Before Mars, before the tunnels, before the social media platform — there was a young South African entrepreneur in the Nevada desert, strapped into the cockpit of a Cold War-era jet, grinning beneath an...
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