Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The standard British Quick Reaction Alert intercept, in the Cold War era, went something like this. NATO radar would call out an unidentified contact entering the United Kingdom Air Defence Region. Two RAF Phantom FGR.2s, held at ten minutes’ readiness around...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine knows it is...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Louis Blériot was flying on a badly burned foot. His monoplane — a fragile structure of spruce, ash, and rubberised canvas — had a 25-horsepower engine that overheated on long runs. He had no compass. No radio. No life jacket. As he climbed to 250 feet over the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1924, flying around the world meant crossing the Pacific Ocean in open biplanes, with engines that had to be rebuilt every few thousand miles, relying on supply ships pre-positioned across the widest ocean on Earth by a US Navy that had deployed its vessels months...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
They were bicycle mechanics. No formal engineering degrees, no government funding, no team of PhDs. Just Wilbur and Orville Wright, a shed in Dayton, Ohio, and an obsession that bordered on madness. By the time they arrived at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The US Army Air Forces didn’t want them. The military establishment was convinced, and had “proved” through pseudo-scientific studies, that Black men lacked the intelligence, the nerve, and the coordination to fly combat aircraft. When political...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Durante 34 días consecutivos, celebramos a los mejores ases de la aviación de combate de la historia: desde Adolphe Pégoud, el francés que inventó el combate aéreo, hasta MM Alam, el as pakistaní que derribó cinco aviones en menos de un minuto. Si te perdiste alguna de esas publicaciones, aún puedes encontrarlas...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 18 April 1942, four months after Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet — something that had never been done before and would never be attempted again — and flew 1,000 miles to bomb Tokyo. The military damage they...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Quick FactsNationalityPakistani 🇵🇰Aerial Victories9 (5 in under 60 seconds — world record sortie)Aircraft FlownF-86 SabreWars1965 Indo-Pakistani WarBorn / Died6 Jul 1935 – 18 Mar 2013 (age 77)UnitNo. 11 Squadron PAF “Arrows” Mohammad Mahmood Alam 1965 —...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In 1936, American Airlines president C.R. Smith made an audacious request to Donald Douglas: build an airliner that could carry passengers across America in 16 hours and make money doing it. The result was the Douglas DC-3 — an aircraft so well-designed that it...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos brevesNacionalidadIsraelí 🇮🇱Victorias aéreas17 (el mayor as de los aviones occidentales)Aeronave voladaF-4 Phantom II, Mirage IIIGuerrasGuerra de los Seis Días, Guerra de Desgaste, Guerra de Yom KippurNacido el 29 de octubre de 1938Unidad 101 Escuadrón “Primer Escuadrón de Cazas” Giora Epstein - a través de Wikimedia...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Fracasó cinco veces. En cada ocasión, se subió a una cápsula más pequeña que un cobertizo de jardín, fue elevado a 35.000 pies por un globo del tamaño de un edificio de 14 pisos e intentó navegar por las impredecibles corrientes en chorro que rodean todo el planeta. En cada ocasión, el clima, el equipo...
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