Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The first thing the crowd at Zhukovsky hears is the noise; the second thing it notices is that something is badly wrong with the wings. A dark, whale-nosed fighter comes howling low across the airfield, and its wings — unmistakably, impossibly —...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The first time you hear it, you feel it before you understand it — a deep, rising howl that climbs the back of your neck and rattles your chest as a vast triangular shadow sweeps overhead. For generations of British airshow-goers, that sound meant one...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It may be the most beautiful aircraft the United States Navy ever sent to sea: long, impossibly sleek, twin-finned and built to sprint at twice the speed of sound off a carrier deck. The North American A-5 Vigilante looked like it had arrived from a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the first months of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi Zero was a nightmare. It could out-climb, out-turn and out-accelerate the stubby Grumman Wildcats the U.S. Navy sent against it, and American pilots who tried to fight it on its own terms —...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line — it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England — but because almost every ally in between refused to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At a quarter to eight on the morning of 5 June 1967, Egyptian air-defence officers were changing shifts, the dawn patrol had landed, and hundreds of Soviet-built fighters sat parked in neat rows across eighteen airfields. Within roughly three hours,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from...
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