1+ week, 3+ day ago   (366+ words) by Max Grünwald | 23 luglio 2026 | Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende | 0 comments On 15 November 1988, a spacecraft that looked almost exactly like the American Space Shuttle rose from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a pillar of flame, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (351+ words) par Max Grünwald | Sep 2, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire The idea of a swept-wing Panther was old — the original 1946 contract even asked for design data on one — but Grumman had resisted, wary of the tricky low-speed handling that swept…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) di Fortuna Leroy | 12 agosto 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Before the UH-60 wore the name, there was another Blackhawk, and it was a snarling gunship. The Sikorsky S-67 first flew on 20 August 1970, a sleek, low-slung attack helicopter built entirely on Sikorsky's own money…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (406+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 30, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Catapulting a jet that weighs as much as fifteen wartime Corsairs off a pitching carrier deck sounds like madness. For 35 years the US Navy did it routinely — with the Douglas A…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (551+ words) par Connor Kerr | 12 août 2026 | Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire On a carrier deck in the northern autumn of 1991, a fighter unlike anything in the West rose straight up on pillars of flame, rotated its tail nozzle back to level, and accelerated away…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (579+ words) di Connor Kerr | 1 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Grumman built the F8F Bearcat around one brutal idea: take the biggest engine America had and wrap the smallest possible aeroplane around it. The result was less a fighter than an…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (426+ words) di Fortuna Leroy | 12 agosto 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 commenti When the Supermarine Scimitar first crashed onto a carrier deck in 1958, it arrived as the biggest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft the Fleet Air Arm had ever tried to operate from a ship....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (119+ words) MiGFlug United announced ten new international cities for 2027 and debuted its Airbus A321XLR, which will open thin transatlantic routes including Newark to Ibiza. In December 1986 Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the Rutan Voyager around the world nonstop and unrefuelled in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (306+ words) di Connor Kerr | 2 agosto 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Some aircraft are ugly by accident. The Blackburn Blackburn was ugly on purpose — and yes, that really is its name, not a printing error. A deep, slab-sided box of a biplane that looked…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (597+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jun 30, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Every aircraft on this list looked, on paper, like a brilliant idea. Each had serious money, serious engineering and serious ambition behind it. And each ended the same way:…...