Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It could out-climb an F-16, scramble from cold to airborne in under half a minute, and fire a radar missile years before its rival could. It was cheap to run, brilliant to fly, and paid for entirely out of one company’s own pocket. And it sold exactly...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Three years ago, Neros was two former teenage drone racers in a workshop. This week the U.S. Army handed the startup a contract worth up to $500 million to build first-person-view attack drones — the cheap, expendable weapons that have rewritten the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For years, one of the more futuristic rumours about America’s new stealth bomber was that it might not need much of a crew at all — that the B-21 Raider could fly with a single pilot, or eventually none. This month the Air Force put that speculation...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story The most expensive defence project in American history now has a single name attached to it. On 17 July 2026, the Senate confirmed Space Force General Michael A. Guetlein to run Golden Dome — President Trump’s plan to throw a missile shield over the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. La tarde del 24 de noviembre de 1971, un hombre tranquilo vestido con un traje de negocios se acercó al mostrador de Northwest Orient en Portland, Oregón, y pagó en efectivo un billete de ida a Seattle. Se identificó como Dan Cooper. Unas horas más tarde saldría de...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story It was a calm, clear night over the Indian Ocean on 24 June 1982 when the passengers of British Airways Flight 9 noticed something strange: a glow along the wings, and puffs of smoke curling into the cabin that smelled of sulphur. Up front, the crew...
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