Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Britain has put a number on its future: £298 billion. That is the size of the Defence Investment Plan unveiled at the end of June, the government’s four-year blueprint for rebuilding an armed forces bent on fighting “the wars of today and tomorrow.”...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On a May morning in 1957, over the Pacific near Christmas Island, a Vickers Valiant called XD818 opened its bomb bay and released a device that fell away, dropped for long seconds, and then turned the sky white. Britain had just become a thermonuclear...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story France, the late 1950s. At SNECMA, engineers were building an aircraft with no wings you would recognise — no long span, no tail as anyone knew it, just a jet engine wrapped inside a great metal ring, designed to stand on its tail and rise straight...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On the morning of 7 August 1919, Parisians near the Champs-Élysées heard an engine where there should have been none. They looked up to see a Nieuport fighter dropping toward the great arch at the head of the avenue — and then, impossibly, threading...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In August 1944, as Allied armies raced across France, a 52-year-old prisoner was put aboard a transport at Drancy bound for the Buchenwald concentration camp. The Vichy regime had already jailed him, together with his wife and children. Now the Nazis...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At noon on 18 February 1944, the guards of Amiens prison sat down to lunch, as they did every day. Outside, snow lay deep across Picardy and the sky was a low grey ceiling. Inside the cruciform building, behind a three-and-a-half-metre perimeter wall,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Off the south coast of England, a small black flying wing shot off a catapult rail bolted to the deck of a moving Royal Navy ship, climbed away on a whining turbojet, and flew itself to a target. No pilot, no recovery, no second chances — the Nyan is...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Somewhere over central France in the late 1950s, test pilot André Turcat pushes a strange delta-winged aircraft past the speed where a normal jet engine begins to gasp for air. And that is when the Nord Griffon comes alive. Behind him, a ramjet the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For decades, one rule has sat quietly at the centre of Western air power: a human being decides when a weapon kills. On June 30, 2026, Britain edged away from it. Buried inside a sweeping Defence Investment Plan — more than £5 billion for drones, the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Comparte esta historia. Durante meses, el programa de cazas más ambicioso de Europa tuvo un problema: la financiación. El 3 de julio de 2026, ese problema se solucionó. El Reino Unido, Italia y Japón firmaron un contrato de 4.600 millones de libras esterlinas ($6.100 millones) para impulsar su programa de sexta generación...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For 44 years, the deep rumble of Boeing E-3A Sentries out of Geilenkirchen has been the sound of NATO watching its own skies. Now, according to a Reuters report published on 2 July, the alliance is preparing to hand that job to a jet from a country...
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