Comparte esta historia. Durante tres décadas de la Guerra Fría, la disuasión nuclear británica se basó en las alas de tres aviones extraordinarios: el Vickers Valiant, el Avro Vulcan y el Handley Page Victor. Conocidos colectivamente como los bombarderos V, fueron diseñados para...
Share this story The Handley Page Victor was the last and most advanced of Britain’s three V-bombers — and the one with the longest career. Designed to carry nuclear weapons to Moscow at high altitude, it outlived its original mission by decades, reinventing...
Share this story For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers,...
Share this story Twenty Sea Harriers sailed south with the Royal Navy task force in April 1982. None of them should have survived. The Argentine Air Force outnumbered them five to one, flew faster jets, and operated from concrete runways while the British pilots...
Un MV-22B Osprey del Cuerpo de Marines a bordo de un buque de asalto anfibio de la Armada. El helicóptero de rotor basculante ha reemplazado al CH-46 Sea Knight en la función de asalto y al C-2 Greyhound en la función de transporte desde portaaviones. (Armada de EE. UU. / Wikimedia Commons) Se suponía que el Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey...
Hoy hace cincuenta años, el 1 de julio de 1976, el Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio del Smithsonian abrió sus puertas en el National Mall de Washington, D.C. Fue un regalo del bicentenario a una nación que acababa de llevar hombres a la Luna, ganar una carrera espacial y construir una...
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock — France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of Super Étendard strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the...
El 30 de junio, un Boeing 737-800 de S7 Airlines se salió de la pista en el aeropuerto de Mirny, en la República de Sajá (Rusia), y quedó varado en el lodo, más allá de la superficie pavimentada. Los 173 pasajeros y los seis miembros de la tripulación salieron ilesos. Sin embargo, el incidente, clasificado como confidencial...
Share this story Every aircraft on this list looked, on paper, like a brilliant idea. Each had serious money, serious engineering and serious ambition behind it. And each ended the same way: cancelled, scrapped or quietly buried after burning through a fortune,...
Share this story Picture a fighter that cannot shoot straight ahead. No guns in the nose, none in the wings — nothing the pilot can aim simply by pointing the aircraft. Instead, all four machine guns sit in a powered turret behind the cockpit, worked by a second...
Share this story Look at it from above and the name explains itself. The Douglas F4D was a broad, tailless delta with gently rounded wingtips — the silhouette of a manta ray gliding through water. The Navy called it the Skyray. The pilots, with magnificent...
Recent Comments