Share this story Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The PZL M-15 Belphegor is the only jet-powered biplane ever put into series...
Share this story On 21 October 1929, a flying boat took off from Lake Constance with 169 people aboard. No aircraft had ever carried close to that many. The record would stand for about twenty years. The Dornier Do X had twelve engines mounted above its wing in six...
Comparte esta historia. Egipto fue el primer país fuera de Francia en comprar el Rafale. Once años después, podría convertirse en el mayor cliente extranjero de este modelo por un amplio margen. El 2 de septiembre de 2026, el diario francés La Tribune informó que El Cairo había presentado una...
Comparte esta historia. La línea de árboles está lo suficientemente cerca como para contarlos individualmente. El horizonte se alza en el parabrisas, el suelo pasa borroso entre vetas verdes, y en algún lugar más adelante un pequeño misil de crucero propulsado por reactor se dirige hacia una ciudad ucraniana a una velocidad aproximada de...
Share this story Germany spent Tuesday accusing Russia of trying to blow up a Ukrainian freighter on German soil. Russia spent the hours that followed escalating its denial, first through its embassy in Berlin, then through Vladimir Putin himself. The sequence...
Share this story In 1947 Avro proposed a bomber shaped like nothing the Royal Air Force had ever bought: a vast tailless delta with no fuselage worth the name, meant to carry a nuclear weapon at high altitude across a continent. It became the Avro Vulcan. There was a...
Share this story On a spring morning at Bordeaux-Mérignac in 1971, a sleek twin-jet lifted off carrying the hopes of the French aircraft industry. Marcel Dassault had built fighters that governments queued up for. Now he was going after Boeing, on...
Share this story For weeks it was described in the careful language of an open investigation: a “suspicious object,” a “security incident,” a drone of unknown origin. On Tuesday, Germany dropped the hedging. Standing before reporters in Berlin,...
Share this story In the early 1950s, neutral Sweden set out to build a supersonic interceptor unlike anything else in the world — a fighter with a strange, folded ‘double-delta’ wing. It was such a radical idea that no one could be sure the shape...
Share this story When ten jets pour off the top of a loop trailing green, white and red smoke, an entire country looks up. The Frecce Tricolori — the Tricolour Arrows — are Italy’s national aerobatic team and, by sheer number of aircraft, the biggest...
Share this story When Emmanuel Macron flew to Stockholm at the end of August, the headline deal was maritime: four French frigates for the Swedish navy, a multi-billion-euro vote of confidence in NATO’s newest member. But tucked alongside it was something that...
Share this story Before dawn on Tuesday, sirens and phone alerts woke residents across eight regions of Estonia. A drone had crossed the country’s southeastern frontier, and a second was tracking toward the border city of Narva. On the runway at Ämari Air...
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