Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Somewhere over the Nevada desert on a July morning in 1957, five American officers stood in the open, looked straight up, and waited for a nuclear weapon to go off directly above their heads. There was no bunker. There was no lead shielding. There was...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Somewhere under the granite of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range, a squadron of fighter jets rolled into a cave and the blast doors closed behind them. This was not a movie set. It was this week’s headline act of Han Kuang 42, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Three de Havilland DH.108 Swallows were ever built. Each one, in turn, killed the man flying it. That is not a curse or a legend — it is simply the record of one of the most beautiful and lethal experimental aircraft Britain ever put into the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Imagine strapping into a fighter, climbing to altitude, and then flying straight at a bomber whose gunners have been ordered to open fire on you. Not blanks. Not a camera. Real bullets, aimed at your aircraft, on purpose. Now imagine doing it two or...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Airlines love a big number. Turkish Airlines just posted one that is hard to argue with: on Sunday, 2 August 2026, the group flew 352,715 passengers in a single day — the busiest day in its 93-year history. That figure is not one airline but two...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It looked like a punchline — a helicopter with its fuselage bent upward in the middle like a piece of fruit, a fat rotor spinning at each end. Soldiers called it the Flying Banana, and they meant it with affection. But the Piasecki H-21 was no...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On a June afternoon in 1988, in front of thousands of airshow spectators, a brand-new Airbus A320 — the most advanced airliner in the world, on its very first passenger flight — flew a slow, low pass over a small French airfield, sank...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Most water bombers are propeller aircraft, and for good reason: they fly low and slow over fires, scooping and dropping in tight mountain valleys. The Beriev Be-200 does it all on jet power. It skims a lake at nearly 220 km/h, swallows 12 tonnes of...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story A four-engine bomber the length of a swimming pool, painted brilliant white, rolls onto the runway. Its wings are stretched forward like a bird’s. Then four of the most powerful engines ever bolted to a warplane light their afterburners, and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story On August 9, an Etihad Airways Airbus A320 lifted out of Abu Dhabi bound for Tashkent, reopening a link to the old Silk Road — and, with it, an entire country’s worth of onward connections. The new daily nonstop is only half the story....
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