La diferencia entre IFR y VFR y por qué es importante
Share this story Every flight that takes off anywhere in the world operates under one of two sets of rules: Visual Flight Rules (VFR) or Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). For passengers, this distinction is invisible. For pilots, it changes everything — from how they...
Billy Mitchell: demostró que los bombarderos podían hundir acorazados, y fue sometido a consejo de guerra por ello.
Los almirantes estaban convencidos de que era imposible. Sencillamente, no se podía hundir un acorazado desde el aire. Los acorazados eran fortalezas blindadas, construidas para resistir el fuego de los cañones navales. Las bombas lanzadas desde gran altura, argumentaban, jamás alcanzarían nada. El general Billy...
De las preguntas frecuentes al vuelo: ¿De verdad puede cualquiera pilotar un avión de combate?
Share this story The question arrives in our inbox almost every day. Sometimes it comes with an apologetic preamble — “I know this sounds stupid, but…” — sometimes with barely concealed excitement, sometimes from someone who has been carrying the thought...
El lenguaje secreto de las marcas de pista: una guía para pilotos
Share this story Every commercial airport runway is covered in white paint — stripes, numbers, rectangles, arrows, and chevrons that appear abstract from a passenger window but carry precise operational meaning for pilots. These markings are not decorative. Each one...
Glenn Curtiss: El hombre que inventó el hidroavión y enfureció a los hermanos Wright.
Antes incluso de subirse a un avión, Glenn Curtiss ya era el hombre más rápido del mundo. El 23 de enero de 1907, condujo una motocicleta con motor V8 de su propia construcción a 219 km/h (136,3 mph) en una milla medida en Ormond Beach, Florida. Fue la velocidad más alta jamás alcanzada por un ser humano...
Qué ocurre dentro de un túnel de viento y por qué sigue siendo importante.
Share this story In an era when a laptop can simulate airflow over a wing in hours, you might assume the wind tunnel has become a museum piece. After all, Computational Fluid Dynamics — CFD — has transformed aerodynamic design, allowing engineers to model millions of...
El piloto que aterrizó en una calle de Manhattan... dos veces
Share this story At three o’clock on a September morning in 1956, the residents of St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights were asleep — blissfully unaware that a single-engine Cessna was descending toward their street from the darkness above the Hudson River....
Pilotos que aterrizaron en el aeropuerto equivocado
Share this story You’d think the hardest part of flying would be, well, the flying. The physics. The weather. The engines. But no — sometimes the hardest part is finding the right airport. And before you assume this only happens to student pilots in Cessnas,...
El Fairey Swordfish: El biplano obsoleto que hundió al Bismarck.
Share this story On the evening of 26 May 1941, fifteen fabric-covered biplanes lumbered off the pitching deck of HMS Ark Royal into a North Atlantic gale. Their target was the most powerful warship in the world: the German battleship Bismarck, a 50,000-ton behemoth...
La experiencia del MiG-29 Fulcrum: Al borde del espacio a Mach 2
Share this story There are very few experiences on Earth that let you break the sound barrier and touch the edge of space in the same flight. The MiG-29 Fulcrum experience with MiGFlug is one of them — and it remains our most sought-after adventure for a reason. This...
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