Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Habían ido a un partido de béisbol. Un padre y su hijo adulto, ambos pilotos privados, volaron a San Luis para ver un partido, y luego volvieron a subir a su Beechcraft Baron para el vuelo de dos horas de regreso a Arkansas. Era tarde, estaba oscuro y había tormentas eléctricas dispersas...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and “Frogfoot” by NATO...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator murmuring headings, its...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect white cone up...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did — rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a few desperate...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Cut a hole in the side of a jumbo jet, point a two-and-a-half-metre telescope out of it, and fly the whole contraption into the stratosphere at night. It sounds like a terrible idea. For twelve years, it was one of the most productive telescopes in the world.It was...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Imagine a cargo plane that works like a truck and trailer. It lands, drops off a fully loaded box, clips on an empty one, and is airborne again in minutes — while ground crews unload the box it left behind. In 1950, Fairchild actually built that airplane. It was...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked American industry a genuinely strange question: could a fighter take off straight up, standing on its tail, from a platform on the back of a warship? Lockheed’s answer was a stubby little aircraft that pointed its nose at...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En algún lugar del desierto de Nevada, una mañana de julio de 1957, cinco oficiales estadounidenses permanecían a la intemperie, mirando fijamente hacia arriba, esperando a que un arma nuclear explotara justo encima de sus cabezas. No había búnker. No había blindaje de plomo. Había un letrero escrito a mano...
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