Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Switzerland’s first F-35A Lightning II is no longer a set of drawings and contracts. It is now metal. In a hall at Cameri, in the Italian region of Piedmont, the first fuselage section of a Swiss jet has been mated to its first wing — the earliest physical sign...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Munich Airport has had a nervous week. On the evening of 17 August 2026, a Lufthansa Airbus A380 arriving from San Francisco touched down short of its runway and ploughed through the approach lighting at the threshold. All 351 people on board were unhurt, and the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the summer of 1991, the Royal Air Force flew supersonic Tornados, was preparing for the Eurofighter, and had just watched stealth aircraft debut over Iraq. And the aircraft it relied on to spot incoming threats and guard the northern approaches to Britain was a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a moonless night in 1942, an RAF bomber crossing the Dutch coast flew into a wall it could not see. There was no barrier in the sky — only an invisible grid of radar beams, searchlights and waiting fighters, each box of it engineered to catch one aircraft at a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is not often that an aircraft gets fifty percent more power without getting any bigger. That is exactly what the U.S. Army is trying to bolt into thousands of its helicopters — and on 12 August 2026 the effort passed one of its hardest gates. GE Aerospace’s...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For thirty years, the sound of Finland’s air defence has been the twin-engine howl of the F/A-18 Hornet. Now the clock on that sound has started ticking down. As Finland’s first F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters move through training in the United...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In a high-bay hall in Fort Worth, Texas, a matte-grey shape is about to disappear. Germany’s first F-35A Lightning II, the airframe stamped MG-01, has rolled out of final assembly and into the stage Lockheed Martin calls Aircraft Final Finishes: the point where...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The F-104 Starfighter has one of the worst reputations in military aviation. Germany bought 916 of them, lost 292, and buried 116 pilots. The Luftwaffe called it the Witwenmacher — the Widowmaker.On one night in January 1982, that aircraft did something no other...
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