Groan, paywall! Nonetheless, it's time to reconsider (for the third time) resurrecting LORAN, now eLORAN. At least as a non-precision option, especially now that VOR's are dropping off the map. The buildings and towers are still standing and ready for new equipment.
Yes, it is unusual for an English language article to not simply say "Italy" instead of "Italia." That's how I'd read it. I would guess it's how Italians might prefer to refer to their own country in their own language. (Like Deutschland=Germany, I suppose.)
Never flew in a Comet 4. Must have been cool. I was a passenger in several Caravelles -- such a beautiful and quiet airplane, with RR Avon engines.
Flew 707's many times as a young man. The ones with Conways were screamers while the P&W's were thunderers. Loved them both.
Jeez, how bogus! This was an aerosol test. Cough aerosols are > 1.0 micron. The virus is 0.1 micron! Those blue (non-N95) masks might stop aerosols, but pretty useless to airborne viruses. Proof: At the super-spreader event at the White House Rose Garden (outdoors, mind you) the infected guests weren't all being coughed at! And if they were, well, unmasked was de rigeur..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7224694/
That said, I'd admit that it's a mystery how cabin attendants have (mostly) dodged the bullets.