Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Every flying boat is a compromise between two incompatible shapes. To get off the water you want a deep hull, to keep the propellers clear of spray, and a wing sitting at a high angle so it will unstick. To fly efficiently you want neither of those...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story The Pacific is the largest single feature on the planet. In 1928 nobody had flown across it, and the reason was arithmetic: the distances between usable landfalls were longer than any aircraft could reliably manage, and if you missed the island you...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1926 an oilfield roughneck in Oklahoma took a metal splinter in his left eye and lost it. Seven years later, the same man flew around the world on his own in under eight days, and then went looking for the edge of the atmosphere. Wiley Post had one...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story No aircraft has ever looked faster standing still. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was sixty-seven feet of needle, with a nose you could have used to open letters and wings so small they looked like an afterthought. Everything about it promised Mach 2. It...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia. El 4 de septiembre de 2026, un Airbus A330-200 de Air China tiene previsto despegar de Pekín, hacer escala durante tres horas en Bucarest y continuar su viaje a Zagreb. Tras su aterrizaje, Croacia contará por primera vez con una conexión aérea regular durante todo el año con China continental.
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia La pista de aterrizaje de la RAF Lyneham la mañana del 22 de julio de 1966 albergaba uno de los aviones menos probables de Gran Bretaña: un interceptor Lightning sin cabina, con el asiento eyectable desactivado, el tren de aterrizaje inmovilizado y un hombre en la cabina que no llevaba puesto...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. El Boeing B-52 Stratofortress lleva setenta años en servicio y va camino de alcanzar los cien. Ha sobrevivido a la Unión Soviética, a la hélice y a la mayoría de los ingenieros que lo diseñaron. Y el diseño que hizo posible todo eso...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In 1935 a newspaper baron dared British industry to build the fastest civil aircraft in Europe. The result was so quick that when the Royal Air Force turned it into a bomber, it could outrun its own fighters. Two years later that same design flew the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The Blackburn Skua was slow, awkward and asked to do two jobs it could not both do well. It has been mocked ever since as one of the Fleet Air Arm’s worst fighters. And yet in the first months of the Second World War this unloved machine scored...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Nobody ever called the Fairey Barracuda beautiful. With its high shoulder-mounted wing, spindly legs and a clutter of struts and flaps hanging beneath it, the Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo and dive bomber looked like it had been assembled from spare...
Recent Comments