Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Seventy-four years ago today, on 16 August 1952, a large and beautiful British airliner lifted off from Filton for the first time. Passengers who later flew in it swore it was the smoothest, quietest airliner they had ever experienced, so hushed that it earned an...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Before there was a Channel Tunnel, and before roll-on, roll-off ferries could swallow a hundred cars at a time, there was a stranger, more glamorous way to take your car to France: you drove it into the nose of an aeroplane. The aircraft that did the swallowing was...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
For 41 years, the record for the fastest subsonic airliner crossing of the Atlantic belonged not to a Boeing or a Douglas, but to a graceful British jet with four engines bunched at its tail. The Vickers VC10 did London to New York in 5 hours and 1 minute, and nothing...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Look at almost any small jet airliner of the 1960s and 1970s, the Douglas DC-9, the Boeing 727, the BAC One-Eleven, the Fokker F28, and you will see the same clever idea: the engines mounted at the tail, leaving the wing clean and the cabin quiet. That idea did not...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Imagine boarding a transatlantic flight, settling into your seat, and then, somewhere over the ocean, walking down a spiral staircase to a cocktail lounge for a drink and a hand of cards. That was not a fantasy in 1950. That was a Tuesday aboard the Boeing 377...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In the mid-1980s, Beechcraft decided to leap a generation ahead of everyone else. It teamed up with Burt Rutan, the most imaginative aircraft designer alive, and built a business aeroplane that looked like it had flown in from the next century: an all-carbon-fibre...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In June 1941 the United States rolled out a bomber so large that a B-17 could have parked under one of its wings. The Douglas XB-19 spanned 212 feet, carried sleeping bunks and a kitchen for its relief crew, and was, for a time, the largest aircraft ever to fly in...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En una gélida noche de abril de 1978, un avión de pasajeros surcoreano, repleto de gente dormida, se desvió mil millas de su ruta, sobrevolando uno de los rincones más secretos de la Unión Soviética, y fue alcanzado por un misil aire-aire. Lo que sucedió después es uno de los sucesos más...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the afternoon of 1 November 2011, a Boeing 767 slid down a runway at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport on its belly, spraying sparks and foam, with 231 people aboard and not a single wheel beneath it. When it stopped, everyone walked away. Some passengers did not even...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La historia es irresistible: en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, un colosal bombardero alemán de seis motores cruza el Atlántico, vuela hasta divisar el horizonte de Manhattan, fotografía Long Island y regresa a casa antes de que Estados Unidos siquiera sepa que estuvo allí. El...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was, by common consent, one of the most beautiful fighters ever built, and one of the most complete. Bigger, faster and longer-legged than the Mirage 2000 it grew from, the Dassault Mirage 4000 was France’s bid to build a true heavyweight, a twin-engine...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson Helicopters to run Flight...
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