Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On Sunday 21 October 1928, a small Waco biplane dropped down over New York’s East River and flew under the Queensboro Bridge. Then under the Williamsburg Bridge. Then the Manhattan Bridge. Then the Brooklyn Bridge. Newsreel cameras caught her at...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Seventy miles south of Hanoi, a steel bridge 540 feet long sat on a single concrete pier in the middle of the Song Ma river. It carried the only railway in the North Vietnamese panhandle, with a road lane on either side. Locals called it Ham Rong: the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At 10:27 on the morning of 24 October 1944, eight dive bombers from the carrier USS Intrepid tipped over above the Sibuyan Sea and went for the biggest target any of their crews had ever seen. Below them steamed Musashi, one of the two heaviest...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story After the hottest summer Britain has ever recorded, the government has decided that some wildfires are simply out of reach for firefighters on foot. Its answer is in the hangars of the Royal Air Force: the twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook and the A400M Atlas...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Landing gear failures usually make headlines on touchdown, at speed, with a crew fighting to keep a heavy aircraft straight. This one happened with the aircraft standing still. On Friday morning, 23 October 2026, the left wing landing gear of a...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story To a generation of fighter pilots and the millions who wanted to be one, he will always be Viper: the calm, moustached commanding officer of the Navy Fighter Weapons School in Top Gun, the man who told Maverick the truth about his father. Tom...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For more than three decades, every Predator, Reaper and Gray Eagle that General Atomics sold was built by General Atomics. On Friday the company broke that habit for its most important new aircraft. The fuselage of the FQ-42 Vengeance, the US Air...
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