Aviación militar, Noticias
Se supone que los aviones retirados deben permanecer en silencio en el desierto, acumulando polvo y palomas. Alguien se olvidó de avisarle al Nighthawk. Dieciocho años después de que la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. se despidiera oficialmente, un aviso de contratación gubernamental, tan seco como una tostada, acaba de revelar uno de los...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Aer Lingus began 2026 promising its largest-ever transatlantic schedule. It will end the year having quietly dismantled five of its US routes, a retreat that says as much about the economics of the North Atlantic as it does about one Irish carrier. The reset spans...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Fresh, far clearer imagery of China’s new turboprop tactical airlifter surfaced around 21 August 2026, reported first by The War Zone and picked up across the defence press. The photographs, taken at an unidentified test airfield, give the best look yet at a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Tras años de retrasos, reinicios de líneas de producción y suficientes dramas como para llenar una temporada de una serie de televisión de prestigio, los primeros Vipers recién salidos de fábrica en Taiwán finalmente regresan a casa. Dos aviones, con los números de cola 6727 y 6728, despegaron de Fort Worth, Texas, el 17 de...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Alaska Airlines has spent barely sixteen months turning itself from a West Coast workhorse into a transatlantic contender, and it is not slowing down. On 20 August 2026 the Seattle carrier confirmed two new European destinations: Paris and Athens, both launching...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It started before dawn. Eight strikes, one runway, and a message aimed squarely at Ankara. Overnight on 18-19 August 2026, Israeli jets cratered the Abu Duhur air base in Syria’s Idlib province, and by sunrise the diplomatic fallout was louder than the bombs....
Aviación militar, Noticias
Open-source analysts say Ukrainian forces struck the Russian airbase at Akhtubinsk in the Astrakhan region in the early hours of 20 August 2026, damaging a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The claim rests on satellite imagery circulated by OSINT channels rather than an official...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Every modern aircraft carrier shares one strange feature: the landing runway is skewed off to one side, pointing away from the ship’s centreline. It looks like an afterthought. It is actually one of the most important safety inventions in aviation history...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Decades before the V-22 Osprey, America built an aircraft that could lift off vertically like a helicopter, then cruise at over 400 mph like an airliner — by rotating its entire wing. It worked. It was decades ahead of its time. And almost nobody remembers it....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the mid-1970s, two American planemakers built four extraordinary transport prototypes that could land almost anywhere and stop almost immediately. Both designs worked brilliantly. Both lost. And then one of them quietly went on to father one of the most successful...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
The passengers on BOAC Flight 911 were promised a treat: a close-up view of Mount Fuji, gleaming under a brilliant blue sky. Minutes later, the sky that looked so calm tore their Boeing 707 apart. The disaster of 5 March 1966 is one of aviation’s starkest...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Amid the Mirages, Skyhawks and Super Étendards of the 1982 Falklands War, the scrappiest Argentine aircraft of all was a stubby twin-turboprop that looked like it belonged in a different decade. The FMA IA 58 Pucará was slow, propeller-driven, and utterly outclassed...
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