Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Aviación militar, Noticias
India’s most ambitious home-built fighter has drawn sharp criticism from an unlikely quarter: one of the officers who helped run the air force until weeks ago. Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, who stepped down as the Indian Air Force’s Vice Chief less than two...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes for 2027. The hub...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Colócate cerca de un Antonov An-22 mientras arranca sus motores y no solo lo oirás, sino que lo sentirás. Cuatro de los motores turbohélice más potentes jamás construidos hacen girar ocho enormes hélices, cada una describiendo un círculo más alto que una casa, y el sonido es profundo y desgarrador...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 21 de marzo de 1999, dos hombres exhaustos hicieron descender un imponente globo plateado sobre el desierto egipcio y entraron en los libros de historia. Bertrand Piccard y Brian Jones acababan de lograr lo que los pioneros habían intentado sin éxito durante décadas: dar la vuelta al mundo en avión...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Sin motor. Sin combustible para aviones. Sin cohete. Solo un esbelto planeador blanco, cuyas largas alas se alimentaban de invisibles corrientes de aire ascendente, ascendiendo más alto que un avión espía U-2 hacia la gélida oscuridad de la estratosfera. En 2018, el planeador sin motor Perlan 2 alcanzó los 76.124 pies...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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