Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In June 1981, a young Israeli pilot flew the most exposed position in one of the most audacious air raids in history. Twenty-two years later, that same man carried a Torah scroll that had survived a concentration camp into orbit — and never came home. Between...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was a routine training flight on a grey winter afternoon. Three American airmen took off from Wiesbaden in an unarmed little jet, expecting to be back in three hours. They never came home. The shootdown of a U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner over East Germany on 28...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Sometimes the most valuable aircraft is the one that proves an idea wrong. The tiny Northrop X-4 Bantam is exactly that: a jet built to test a tempting theory about the sound barrier, which flew well enough to demonstrate, conclusively, that the theory was a dead end....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the last day of 1986, a sleek new fighter lifted off from a runway in Israel and climbed into a clear desert sky. It handled beautifully. It was, by many accounts, world-class. Eight months later, its own government voted to kill it — by a single vote. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It looked like a beer barrel with wings, and the Swedes said so themselves — they called it Flygande Tunnan, the “Flying Barrel.” But behind that comical shape hid a serious pioneer: the first swept-wing fighter to enter squadron service anywhere in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft it was meant to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation’s strangest...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
El vídeo es de esos que te revuelven el estómago: un elegante jet ejecutivo deslizando sus ruedas principales sobre la pista, para luego mantener el morro en el aire durante unos largos segundos, porque no había nada debajo que lo sostuviera. El 18 de agosto de 2026, un NetJets...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For 13 years, if you wanted to fly nonstop from Melbourne to Seoul on Korean Air, you were out of luck. That changes this December. On 19 August 2026, Korean Air confirmed it will resume nonstop Seoul–Melbourne service — its first flights on the route...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On Tuesday, 18 August 2026, a very unusual crowd gathered in the sky over northern Poland and the Baltic — and every serious flight-tracker in Europe stopped to watch. In a large, U.S.-led NATO air exercise, a dense package of allied aircraft flew combat-strike,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The Gulf’s low-cost giant is about to do something low-cost carriers are not supposed to do: fly a narrowbody, non-stop, five and a half hours to the heart of Europe — every single day. On 19 August 2026, Air Arabia announced a new daily service between...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Una sola fotografía bastó para que internet decidiera que China había construido un espejo. Durante el fin de semana del 19 de agosto de 2026, nuevas imágenes de un caza embarcado J-35 de la Armada del Ejército Popular de Liberación en vuelo se viralizaron en los círculos de observadores militares. En lugar del habitual gris mate, el fuselaje del avión...
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