Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On paper, the Yakovlev Yak-38 looked like Moscow’s answer to the Harrier: a jet that could rise straight off a deck with no catapult, hover, and land vertically. In practice it was one of the most compromised combat aircraft of the Cold War.The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Grumman built the F8F Bearcat around one brutal idea: take the biggest engine America had and wrap the smallest possible aeroplane around it. The result was less a fighter than an engine with a saddle — an 18-cylinder radial hauling a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the 1930s the Atlantic was aviation’s unconquered ocean. Airships had crossed it, but no commercial heavier-than-air machine could carry paying cargo the whole way in a single hop. The physics was brutally simple: a flying boat heavy enough...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story For most of the last thirty years, the answer to “who builds America’s fighter jets?” was almost boringly simple. Lockheed Martin built the stealth fighters, and everyone else competed for what was left. Then, in the space of about...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story For twenty years the Atlantic had been killing balloonists. Since 1958, five men had died trying to drift across it, and every attempt — more than a dozen of them — had ended in the sea. Then, in August 1978, three amateurs from Albuquerque climbed...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In 1935 the Soviet Union built the largest aircraft on Earth — an eight-engined giant with a wingspan to rival a modern Boeing 747, fitted out not with weapons but with a printing press, a photographic lab, a telephone exchange, a cinema, and a radio...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At 11:20 on the morning of 25 January 1966, a Lockheed test pilot named Bill Weaver lifted an SR-71 Blackbird off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Beside him, in the reconnaissance systems officer’s seat, sat Jim Zwayer. A few hours later,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia El 30 de julio de 2026, el gobierno de la India comunicó al Parlamento algo que, más de un año después del desastre del vuelo 171 de Air India, solo dificulta aún más la resolución del misterio central: los interruptores de control de combustible del Boeing 787, los mismos componentes en el...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Algunos aviones de guerra se hicieron famosos en combates aéreos, surcando el cielo con sus ametralladoras disparando sin cesar. El McDonnell F-101 Voodoo se hizo famoso haciendo lo contrario: volando bajo, a toda velocidad y completamente desarmado, directamente sobre la gente que intentaba...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. De vez en cuando, la historia de la aviación nos presenta un avión cuyo mayor logro fue simplemente existir. El Bell P-59 Airacomet es el santo patrón de ese club. Fue el primer avión a reacción de Estados Unidos, un verdadero hito, y sin embargo fue tan...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Most military aircraft can be summed up in a single job. Fighters fight. Bombers bomb. Attack helicopters attack. And then there is the Mil Mi-24, a machine that looked at the neat little boxes military planners like to draw and cheerfully refused to...
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