Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A four-engine bomber the length of a swimming pool, painted brilliant white, rolls onto the runway. Its wings are stretched forward like a bird’s. Then four of the most powerful engines ever bolted to a warplane light their afterburners, and roughly 275 tonnes...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Mucho antes de que un misil ruso Shahed llegue a una ciudad ucraniana, debe ser almacenado, repostado, lanzado y guiado. En la noche del 6 al 7 de agosto, Ucrania atacó toda esa cadena a la vez, bombardeando una plataforma de lanzamiento de drones, un radar de alerta temprana y las estaciones repetidoras que...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On August 9, an Etihad Airways Airbus A320 lifted out of Abu Dhabi bound for Tashkent, reopening a link to the old Silk Road — and, with it, an entire country’s worth of onward connections. The new daily nonstop is only half the story. Paired with a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante medio siglo, los Red Arrows han marcado el cielo británico con sus colores rojo, blanco y azul, gracias a nueve BAE Hawks volando ala con ala. Este verano, la firma quedó incompleta: los Hawk T1 desgastados obligaron al equipo a utilizar siete aviones en la mayoría de sus exhibiciones de 2026.
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Hollywood Burbank Airport is the little airport that Angelenos love precisely because it is not LAX. Two terminals, a walk across the tarmac to the stairs, quick hops to Las Vegas and the Bay Area. It is not the sort of place you associate with a five-and-a-half-hour...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
El sueño era un avión eléctrico que te llevaría entre ciudades en casi total silencio, despegando verticalmente desde una azotea y volando sobre alas cortas repletas de pequeños ventiladores. Lilium, la empresa emergente de Múnich que recaudó más de mil millones de dólares persiguiendo ese sueño,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
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