Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Three years ago, SAS was a cautionary tale. The Scandinavian flag carrier was in bankruptcy court, shedding aircraft, and being written off in the trade press as the next great European airline to disappear. In June 2026 it is doing something only a confident airline...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The opening chapter of Wings of War — From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on how military aviation was invented, one breakthrough at a time.It is the first of November, 1911, and a young Italian lieutenant named Giulio Gavotti is flying a flimsy Etrich...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that shares its name...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For most of 2026, Boeing was quietly winning. Through the first four months of the year, the American giant had handed over more jets than its European rival, and it looked as though the comeback story was finally taking shape. Then came May — and Airbus took it...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Picture climbing aboard in Los Angeles, settling into a cabin tall enough to stand up straight, and stepping off in Sydney without the aircraft ever touching the ground in between. No fuel stop in Honolulu, no diversion, no second leg. That is the promise of the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture a small wooden crate, about the size of a car’s trunk, dropped by parachute into a field. A man runs to it, opens it, and pulls out what looks like a deflated grey rubber raft. He works a pump for about five minutes. The shapeless bundle swells,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 20 June 1951, over the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, test pilot Jean “Skip” Ziegler did something no pilot had ever done. As his stubby little research jet, the Bell X-5, climbed away from the desert floor, he reached for a control and the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is the middle of the night somewhere over the Norwegian Sea, and a four-engine turboprop is flying low and slow above the black water. Inside, a Navy flight officer hunches over a screen, watching a pattern of floating microphones he has just seeded across the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just before dawn on 17 April 1944, and a sleek, triple-tailed airliner is rolling down the runway at Lockheed’s Burbank field. In the left seat, hands on the controls, sits one of the most famous men in America: Howard Hughes — aviator, tycoon, and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is 7 March 1964, and the desert south of Cairo shimmers in the morning heat. On the runway at Helwan sits a tiny, needle-nosed delta-wing jet, barely bigger than a sports car with wings. An Egyptian test pilot runs the engine up, releases the brakes, and the little...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
From this December, a British holidaymaker will be able to board a Boeing 787 at London Gatwick and step off it on a beach in southern Thailand — no change of plane, no Gulf stopover. Norse Atlantic Airways has announced a new nonstop service between Gatwick and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
United Airlines just turned a Boeing 787-10 into a flying flag. On 15 June 2026, the carrier rolled out a bold “Stars and Stripes” special livery — a deep blue fuselage, fifty white stars, and diagonal red-and-white stripes sweeping across the tail...
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