Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Tens of thousands of Axis prisoners spent the Second World War behind Allied wire. Exactly one of them broke out, crossed an ocean, and made it all the way back to his own side to fly again. His name was Franz von Werra, and the film they made about...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Head-on, the Fairey Gannet looked like something a committee had argued about and lost. A deep, humpbacked fuselage, a chin full of radar, and a nose crowded with eight spinning propeller blades stacked in two counter-rotating discs. It is one of the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story From the front it looked like the future: a big, twin-boom jet with a needle nose and no visible cockpit canopy where you would expect one. The de Havilland Sea Vixen was one of the most futuristic fighters the Royal Navy ever flew. It was also one of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the 1950s the U.S. Navy watched the Air Force build a fleet of long-range bombers to carry the nation’s nuclear deterrent — and decided it wanted in. Its answer was one of the strangest and most beautiful warplanes America ever built: a...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story On 24 July, a rule two decades in the making rewrote what counts as a light-sport aircraft in America — and, with it, what a beginner pilot is allowed to fly. MOSAIC, the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification, tears up the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story For four years a quiet turf war has run between the companies building 5G networks and the people who land airplanes. On 24 July, the FAA moved to end it. The agency is issuing a final rule requiring aircraft radio altimeters to shrug off interference...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. En 1943, un ingeniero de 33 años prometió a las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos un avión de combate a reacción en 180 días. Alquiló una carpa de circo, la instaló junto a una fábrica de plásticos maloliente en Burbank, reunió a un grupo selecto de ingenieros y entregó el XP-80...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Derribó más aviones enemigos que cualquier otro caza aliado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y mató a un número espeluznante de los jóvenes enviados a pilotarlo, antes incluso de que conocieran a un alemán. El Sopwith Camel fue el mejor caza de combate aéreo de 1917 y...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. No era rápido. No era bonito. No podía combatir en combate aéreo. Y durante treinta años, cuando el tiempo empeoraba y el objetivo permanecía oculto bajo las nubes y la oscuridad que lo paralizaban todo, la Armada de los Estados Unidos enviaba el Grumman A-6 Intruder. Subsónico...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Archer Aviation spent years promising to fly you across a city in a whisper-quiet electric air taxi. At Farnborough this week it revealed something rather different: a pilotless, hybrid-electric tiltrotor built with the defence-technology firm...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 1 April 2001, a lumbering American spy plane and a hot-rod Chinese fighter touched wingtips over the South China Sea. One aircraft limped away with its nose torn off and 24 terrified people aboard. The other broke in half and fell...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Share this story There is a place in the sky where flying too slow will kill you and flying too fast will kill you — and the gap between the two can be narrower than the length of a bus. Pilots call it the coffin corner, and it is one of the strangest, most...
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