Comparte esta historia La pista de aterrizaje de la RAF Lyneham la mañana del 22 de julio de 1966 albergaba uno de los aviones menos probables de Gran Bretaña: un interceptor Lightning sin cabina, con el asiento eyectable desactivado, el tren de aterrizaje inmovilizado y un hombre en la cabina que no llevaba puesto...
Share this story Watch a Boeing 777X fly and something looks almost alarming: the wings bend. A lot. In gusty air the tips ride metres above where they sit on the ground, flexing like a diving board. Passengers new to it sometimes gasp. But that enormous flex is not a...
Comparte esta historia. El Boeing B-52 Stratofortress lleva setenta años en servicio y va camino de alcanzar los cien. Ha sobrevivido a la Unión Soviética, a la hélice y a la mayoría de los ingenieros que lo diseñaron. Y el diseño que hizo posible todo eso...
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Share this story In 1935 a newspaper baron dared British industry to build the fastest civil aircraft in Europe. The result was so quick that when the Royal Air Force turned it into a bomber, it could outrun its own fighters. Two years later that same design flew the...
Share this story The Blackburn Skua was slow, awkward and asked to do two jobs it could not both do well. It has been mocked ever since as one of the Fleet Air Arm’s worst fighters. And yet in the first months of the Second World War this unloved machine scored...
Share this story Nobody ever called the Fairey Barracuda beautiful. With its high shoulder-mounted wing, spindly legs and a clutter of struts and flaps hanging beneath it, the Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo and dive bomber looked like it had been assembled from spare...
Comparte esta historia En la primavera de 1942, el flamante Avro Lancaster apenas había entrado en guerra cuando el Mando de Bombarderos envió doce de ellos en una misión que rozaba el suicidio: volar a plena luz del día, a baja altura, a mil millas a través de la Europa ocupada para bombardear...
Share this story On November 6, 1945, an American fighter turned onto final approach to a small escort carrier off California when its engine quit. The pilot did not bail out. He kept coming, touched down, and caught a wire — and in doing so made the first...
Share this story The most famous British bomber of the Second World War began life as one of its worst. Before the Avro Lancaster hauled bouncing bombs to the Ruhr dams and Tallboys onto the Tirpitz, there was the Avro Manchester — a twin-engine heavy so plagued...
Share this story Three months after Pearl Harbor, two enormous Japanese flying boats lifted off from a lagoon in the Marshall Islands and set course for Hawaii. Their plan was almost absurd: fly nearly 2,000 miles across empty ocean, meet a submarine at a deserted...
Share this story Two years ago Riyadh Air was a logo and a promise. This week it flew its first passengers to Bangkok — the newest thread in a network that Saudi Arabia intends to stretch across the planet.On September 2, the kingdom’s from-scratch flag...
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