Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Heathrow has not laid a single metre of new runway. It has not even secured permission to build one. And yet, as of a regulator’s ruling on July 29, 2026, passengers are now on the hook for the bill.The UK Civil Aviation Authority has cleared...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Eric “Winkle” Brown flew more different types of aircraft than any human being who has ever lived — nearly five hundred of them, from Spitfires to jets to captured German rocket planes. And of all of them, the one he wrote about with...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story When the founder of Britain’s leading aviation magazine first laid eyes on the Royal Air Force’s newest bomber in 1936, he needed only five words. The fuselage was tall, deep and barely a yard wide, and it reminded him of a piece of luggage. The name...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story By 1952 the jet age had well and truly arrived. Swept-wing MiGs and Sabres were tearing across the skies of Korea at close to the speed of sound, and the propeller-driven fighter looked like a museum piece. Nobody told the Hawker Sea Fury. On a August...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story For a few months, the world’s cheapest big airline flew the world’s trendiest long-haul jet. It did not last. IndiGo — India’s low-cost giant, and the largest airline in the country by a country mile — is tearing up its damp-lease deal...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 June 1994, a 250-ton bomber wheeled around the control tower at Fairchild Air Force Base in a bank no B-52 was ever meant to hold. The left wing kept dropping — past 60 degrees, past 90 — until the giant simply...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Twenty minutes out of Memphis, First Officer Jim Tucker heard a sound he had never heard on an aeroplane: a metallic ring, again and again. It was a claw hammer coming down on the skull of his flight engineer. In the next few seconds a man would try...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On 24 November 1944, a bombardier lay over his bombsight five and a half miles above Tokyo, cross-hairs settled on the Nakajima engine works, and watched his bombs miss by a mile. Not because his aim was bad — because something invisible had...
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