It is March 27th, 1999 the quiet nightfall in the Serbian countryside near Buđanovci gets broken by the thunderous screech of the NATO aircrafts descending from the North, in fact, those nights in the former Yugoslavian Federal Republic are everything except quiet: the NATO has been bombing the country for three days. Covered by their…
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Antonov An-225 Mriya
Until not so long ago, it was the largest airplane in the world, it flew all over the world and it was loved by every aviation enthusiast. Its name translates as ‘dream’ and it was originally built in order to carry the soviet Buran-class orbiters. It was developed during the 1980s in Soviet Ukraine by…
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
Evolution is constant, slowly but unstoppable, species are born and extinct, same happens to aviation technology in a faster way. But as it happens to animals, you can find specimens that belong to cretacic eras but somehow are still alive in plein 2022, in terms of comparison; we are going to talk about the tyrannosaurus…
What is the matter with aircraft and 5G?
As you may know, in the last weeks you’ve probably seen talk of 5g networks interfering with planes in the US. Earlier this year some companies like Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa and British Airways all announced changes to some flights, citing uncertainty about potential interference between new 5G cell phone…
SR-71 Blackbird
In the 1960s the Cold War was heating up and after the shot down of Gary Powers by a Soviet missile, while he was flying in the U-2, the USA needed a new kind of airplane. The SR-71 was developed as a black project, a highly classified project by Lockheed Corporation from the Lockheed A-12…
A story of espionage in the Cold War era
The single-seat, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed U2 that took of for the first time 66 years ago is one of the aircraft that drones and satellites were intended to replace but is still flying missions in an environment no other aircraft can operate in. This single-engine aircraft was operated by Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, Republic…
How do airlines schedule flights?
Have you ever wondered why does your flight departs at certain time of the day? Do you think there’s a reason why when you take a transatlantic flight, it departs in the morning in Europe or in the afternoon in America? It’s all part of a complex scheme called “Airline scheduling”. The time a flight…
The engineering behind the Sr71 Blackbird
It’s the higher flier, the fastest and most slippery, it’s the Blackbird. But have you ever wondered what’s behind its records? Have you ever thought about the insane engineering behind one of those engines? The Sr-71 Blackbird, known between its pilots as Habu, is the conventional plane with higher flight roof, higher top speed and…
What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
The aviation industry is a big polluter of our World, accounting for approximately 2-3% of the manmade global carbon emissions and that means we need to find ways to reduce CO2 emissions in the following years. This is an urgent situation because of the growth of air traffic in the past years and the predicted…
James H. Doolittle
Today’s turn its for one of that people that deserves his own Hollywood movie, meet James H. Doolittle. Born in California in 1896, Doolittle was a short kid, such thing made him being bullied by his classmates till he started boxing, turning de odds and giving him a strong personality but his first contact with…