Share this story In the autumn of 1942, the strangest fighter in America sat on a dry lakebed in the Mojave wearing a lie. Whenever the aircraft was parked in the open, ground crews bolted a dummy wooden propeller to its nose, because the machine hidden beneath the...
Comparte esta historia. Habían ido a un partido de béisbol. Un padre y su hijo adulto, ambos pilotos privados, volaron a San Luis para ver un partido, y luego volvieron a subir a su Beechcraft Baron para el vuelo de dos horas de regreso a Arkansas. Era tarde, estaba oscuro y había tormentas eléctricas...
Comparte esta historia. Es el sonido que todo pasajero teme y para el que todo piloto se entrena: un estallido, una sacudida y llamas que se elevan desde el motor segundos después de que las ruedas abandonan la pista. En la mañana del 10 de agosto de 2026, las personas a bordo del vuelo 1760 de American Airlines...
Comparte esta historia. Durante años, Boeing financió discretamente tres de las apuestas más interesantes en aviación: un taxi aéreo autónomo, un dron de reconocimiento probado en combate y el software para evitar que los cielos congestionados se convirtieran en un caos. El 10 de agosto de 2026, entregó las tres...
Share this story Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and...
Share this story Ask anyone who served in Vietnam what the war sounded like, and many will give you the same answer: a rhythmic, chopping whop-whop-whop rolling in over the trees. It was the sound of the Bell UH-1 — the Huey — and depending on which end of...
Share this story It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator...
Share this story Picture a shipping container bolted to the deck of a warship, its interior glowing with the soft light of industrial 3D printers. Outside, the sea is heaving — twelve-foot waves, some of the roughest water off California in five years. Inside,...
Share this story A short domestic hop between Corpus Christi and Dallas/Fort Worth is about as routine as flying gets. But one American Airlines flight this month quietly made history — it was the first commercial passenger service in the United States powered...
Share this story Somewhere over the North Atlantic on Sunday evening, a small object in a business-class seat pocket did what airlines now fear more than almost anything else: it began to smoke. The device was a passenger’s power bank. The aircraft was a SWISS...
Share this story Just after dawn on Monday, air-raid sirens and the buzz of engines reached a city most of the war had never touched. Nizhnekamsk sits roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from the nearest Ukrainian-held ground, deep in the Russian republic of...
Share this story On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect...
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