Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1911, flying across the United States was widely considered impossible. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst put money on it anyway, offering $50,000 to the first pilot to cross the country by air in 30 days or less. The men best equipped...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In May 1930 a 26-year-old typist’s daughter from Hull climbed into a second-hand biplane she had named Jason, pointed it toward the far side of the planet, and set out to fly alone to Australia. Amy Johnson had held a pilot’s licence for...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On the evening of 4 October 1930, the largest flying object the world had ever built slipped its mooring mast at Cardington and turned south for India. The R101 was 777 feet long, more than seven storeys tall, and carried a government minister who had...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu — 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. Fifteen crews signed up, tens of thousands of spectators came to watch,...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story The longest passenger flight ever operated was not a modern jet gliding from Singapore to New York. It was a lumbering World War II flying boat, cruising at 125 mph across a hostile ocean for up to thirty-three hours at a stretch — long enough...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On the morning of 7 December 1941, a Pan American Boeing 314 flying boat was two hours out of Auckland, New Zealand, gliding across the South Pacific in luxury — dining lounge, sleeping berths, white-jacketed stewards. Then the radio operator...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story An airliner is steered by its hydraulics. They move the ailerons, the elevators, the rudder — every control surface the pilots touch. Take away all of it and, in theory, the aircraft becomes an unsteerable projectile. On 22 November 2003, a DHL...
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