Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
There is a place in the sky where flying too slow will kill you and flying too fast will kill you — and the gap between the two can be narrower than the length of a bus. Pilots call it the coffin corner, and it is one of the strangest, most unforgiving pieces of...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Every couple of years, the aviation industry decamps to a former airfield in Hampshire and spends a week trying to out-announce itself. Farnborough 2026 is no exception — and by the close of the second day, the scoreboard had already ticked past a number that...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Hunting a submarine is a team sport. This year, at the world’s largest naval exercise, the team stopped stopping at national borders — and started sharing the same aircraft.For the first time at RIMPAC, the U.S. Navy is flying mixed multinational crews...
Aviación militar, Noticias
El mensaje provino del Comando de Operaciones Aéreas en Yakarta, y para los noventa y cinco hombres y mujeres del Escuadrón Aéreo 15 significó algo que ninguno de ellos había hecho antes: empacar cinco aviones, cruzar el mar de Arafura e ir a volar con el mundo. Por primera vez, los indonesios...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with the first aircraft...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Ten nights in, the pattern has become grimly familiar. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eastern on 20 July, U.S. Central Command announced it had finished another round of strikes on Iran — the tenth consecutive night — hitting military command centres, missile and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Yakarta fue de compras en busca de un avión de combate de primera línea y, en cambio, regresó a casa con un entrenador muy inteligente que contraataca. En Farnborough, el 21 de julio, Leonardo y su socio indonesio PT ESystem Solutions firmaron un contrato con el Ministerio de Defensa de Indonesia por 12...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Australia construyó el Ghost Bat. Resulta que Europa ha estado ayudando discretamente todo este tiempo, y en Farnborough, Boeing finalmente lo dijo en voz alta. El 21 de julio, el director global del programa MQ-28, Glen Ferguson, confirmó que la empresa italiana Leonardo se ha convertido en un socio oficial...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Modern air defense has a money problem, and everybody knows it. A single Patriot shot can cost more than the drone it swats down, and in a war where the incoming threats are cheap and endless, the math eventually breaks the defender, not the attacker. At Farnborough...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
There is a company on the New York Stock Exchange today whose name is a peace treaty between two men who spent a decade trying to destroy each other in court. Orville and Wilbur Wright patented powered flight. Glenn Curtiss started building aeroplanes anyway. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 5:55 on the evening of Friday 4 October 1918, a small biplane with cardboard wings and a papier-mâché body lifted off a wheeled dolly running down a portable track near Dayton, Ohio. There was nobody aboard and nobody controlling it. It was supposed to fly a preset...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The test subject was a pig. It was chosen because its nervous system is close enough to a human’s for the results to mean something, and because nobody was quite willing to find out the other way first. The pig was harnessed to a nylon line, a helium balloon...
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