Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
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...
Aviación militar, Noticias
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...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
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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