Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
July was, by Airbus’s recent standards, a quiet month. The European planemaker handed over 67 aircraft to 39 customers — a step down from 89 in June and 81 in May. And yet, halfway-plus through 2026, Airbus is still comfortably in front.The running total...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For months the story ran the wrong way. Poland was going to scrap its last MiG-29 fighters rather than hand them to Ukraine, a drones-for-jets deal apparently dead in the water. On 7 August 2026 the narrative flipped.Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
France has made its move. On 6 August 2026, Dassault Aviation handed New Delhi a formal techno-commercial proposal for 114 Rafale fighters — the long-awaited answer to India’s Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender, and one of the largest single fighter...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. The Enola Gay needed a runway, and the runway needed an island. This is the story of Tinian — the Pacific speck that became, for one astonishing year, the largest airport on Earth. Sunset, Tinian, midsummer...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our ten-part focus series. Part 9 flew the atomic missions; this piece goes back three months earlier, into the room where a handful of men decided which cities would live and which would die — and why the city at the top of the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Imagina que eres un piloto de combate que acaba de saltar en paracaídas sobre un mar frío y agitado, lejos de tierra firme, con la costa enemiga a la vista. Estás solo en medio del oleaje, hasta que oyes motores y un enorme y desgarbado hidroavión cae del cielo y aterriza en mar abierto...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Algunos aviones son feos y eficaces. Muy pocos son hermosos e inútiles. El Republic XF-12 Rainbow era una rareza: un avión tan aerodinámicamente puro que parecía esculpido, y tan perfectamente construido para una misión que, cuando finalmente voló, ya no...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En 1934, los estadounidenses alzaron la vista sobre Miami y vieron algo inexplicable: un avión volando bajo lo que parecía ser una sombrilla de jardín gigante. No se trataba de una acrobacia ni de una caricatura. Era el Nemeth Parasol, una de las aeronaves más extrañas que jamás haya despegado...
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