Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On Aug. 18, 2026, off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japanese fighter pilots were sent up to shadow an unusual pair drifting across the East China Sea. One was a Chinese Y-9 electronic-warfare aircraft. The other had no one aboard at all: a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On Aug. 21, 2026, at Malmen Air Base in Sweden, Saab chose the Swedish Air Force’s 100th birthday to pull the cover off its vision of the next one hundred years. Standing on the floor was a full-scale mock-up of a tailless, stealthy, supersonic...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Qatar is about to stop borrowing other people’s gas stations. On Aug. 20, 2026, the US State Department signed off on a possible $4.5 billion sale of four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers to the Qatar Emiri Air Force, a deal that would let the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For the first time, one of the smallest and cheapest fighters in Europe has reached far beyond the horizon. On Aug. 21, 2026, a Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen C released a live Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile over the Vidsel Test Range in Norrbotten,...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On the morning of 25 October 1999, a small charter jet lifted off from Orlando bound for Dallas. It was an ordinary hop for six ordinary reasons, a golfer, his agents, a course designer, and two pilots, all with places to be. Within minutes, something...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Long Beach harbor, the morning of 2 November 1947, smelled of salt, diesel and quiet disappointment. Bobbing in the channel was the largest flying machine humanity had ever bolted together: a wooden flying boat the length of two-thirds of a football...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 15 April 1969, a lumbering four-engine reconnaissance aircraft climbed away from a Japanese airfield on a mission its crew had flown, in one form or another, roughly 200 times in three months without incident. It was routine. It was...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Breaking — The US Navy is internally weighing whether to rename the future aircraft carrier CVN-81, currently designated the future USS Doris Miller, and could potentially name it after President Donald Trump, CNN reported on 20 August 2026 in an...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 20 February 1959, a factory outside Toronto was building the most advanced interceptor in the Western world. By that afternoon it was building nothing at all. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had risen in the House of Commons and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Above the Sea of Japan the air was thin and lethally cold, the clouds below him packed like dirty cotton. It was Royce Williams’ second flight of the day, 18 November 1952, and his Grumman Panther was clawing past 12,000 feet when the radio...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to...
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