Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the summer of 1940, outnumbered RAF fighter pilots kept turning up in exactly the right place to meet the Luftwaffe, again and again. To the Germans it looked like uncanny luck. It was nothing of the sort. Along the coast of Britain stood a line of tall steel...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a warm night in the summer of 1915, Londoners looked up from their blacked-out streets and heard something no city had ever heard before: the steady drone of engines coming out of the dark, high overhead. Moments later, bombs began to fall from a vast silver shape...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the last spring of the Second World War, Dutch children ran into the open fields as British bombers roared overhead, not to hide, but to wave. Because these Lancasters were not carrying bombs. They were raining down bread, tinned meat and chocolate on a nation that...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the night of Aug. 17, 1943, a rocket engineer named Wernher von Braun walked back to his quarters on a quiet stretch of the German Baltic coast and looked up. A full moon hung over the secret research town of Peenemünde. Then the first flares blossomed in the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Bulgaria has spent years trying to drag its air force into the NATO era, and it has just been handed some unwelcome news. The second batch of eight brand-new F-16 Block 70 fighters, once promised by the end of 2027, may not arrive until 2030. Lockheed Martin has told...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Cuando un terremoto de magnitud 7,4 sacudió el oeste de Colombia el 10 de agosto de 2026, la respuesta estadounidense llegó en cuatro aviones a reacción. En cuestión de días, los aviones de transporte C-17 Globemaster III de la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. aterrizaban en Bogotá y Medellín, con sus bodegas de carga...
Aviación militar, Noticias
As choking smoke spreads over Borneo, Indonesia is fighting fire with the weather itself. On Aug. 21, 2026, five more Indonesian Air Force aircraft lifted off from Abdulrachman Saleh Air Base in Malang, bound for the burning provinces of West and East Kalimantan....
Aviación militar, Noticias
La Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. planea comprar 38 cazas furtivos F-35 el próximo año. Su grupo de presión más influyente afirma que esa cantidad es muy inferior a la necesaria y que la cifra real debería ser de al menos 60, cada año. En una carta dirigida a los líderes del Congreso esta semana, la Fuerza Aérea...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily swapping the...
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