¿Cuántos aviones hay en el mundo?

¿Cuántos aviones hay en el mundo?

Mundo de la aviación

Share this story Ask most people to picture “the world’s aircraft” and they imagine airliners — rows of jets at a busy airport. Yet airliners are a tiny slice of the real total. Add up everything with wings and an engine, from a two-seat trainer at a...
The Friendly Jet Trainer That Went to War

The Friendly Jet Trainer That Went to War

Mundo de la aviación

Share this story Most fast jets seat their crew one behind the other, the passenger staring at the back of the pilot’s helmet. The BAC Jet Provost and its armed cousin, the BAC Strikemaster, do it differently. In these aircraft you sit shoulder to shoulder with...
El avión espía con un ala negra

El avión espía con un ala negra

Aviación militar

Share this story Here is a strange way to predict a North Korean missile test. Open a flight-tracking website, and watch for a single, ageing American jet to take off from Nebraska, cross the Pacific, and start flying long racetrack patterns over the Yellow Sea. When...
Why Runways Change Their Numbers

Why Runways Change Their Numbers

Mundo de la aviación

Share this story In 2009, Fairbanks International Airport in Alaska closed a runway, sent out crews, and repainted the enormous white numbers at both ends. Runway 1L–19R became runway 2L–20R.Nothing had been built. Nothing had moved. The concrete was in...
The Hole in Your Aircraft Window

The Hole in Your Aircraft Window

Mundo de la aviación

Share this story Next time you get a window seat, look at the bottom of the window. There is a hole in it. A real one, drilled straight through, about the size of a pinhead.Most people who notice it assume one of two things: that it is damage, or that it is there to...
El Pentágono quiere láseres que vuelen

El Pentágono quiere láseres que vuelen

Aviación militar, Noticias

Share this story Cheap drones have humbled expensive air defenses for years now. The Pentagon’s answer keeps coming back to the same idea: a weapon that fires light, costs pennies a shot, and never runs out of magazine. This week a senior Defense Department...
US and Australia Wage War Over Alaska

US and Australia Wage War Over Alaska

Aviación militar, Noticias

Share this story There is a patch of sky over interior Alaska so large it could swallow a small country. This month, American and Australian fighter crews are fighting a war inside it. Red Flag-Alaska 26-3 began on 13 August and runs through 28 August 2026, a Pacific...