Aviación militar, Noticias
For more than sixty years, “Air Force One” has meant one specific shade of pale blue — the robin’s-egg scheme drawn up for John F. Kennedy in 1962. On 19 June, a different 747 rolled into the light inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews, and the blue was gone.In its...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It sounds like paperwork: a pilot from one Air Force unit flew an aircraft alongside a pilot from another. Except the aircraft was the B-21 Raider — the most secret new warplane in the world — and one of the men at the controls was a frontline combat pilot, not a test...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild Weasel tail code....
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Here is something you do not see every day: Boeing builds a brand-new jet trainer, wins the U.S. Air Force contract, and then tells the U.S. Navy, no thanks. On June 12, the company confirmed it will not bid the T-7A Red Hawk for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Poco después del mediodía del 13 de junio de 2026, los residentes de los alrededores del lago Rimrock escucharon un sonido inusual en un tramo tranquilo de las Cascadas de Washington: un avión de combate, volando bajo y rápido, seguido de una serie de estallidos secos. Segundos después, un F/A-18D Hornet del Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Qatar Airways is heading back to the City of Brotherly Love. The Gulf carrier confirmed in June 2026 that it will relaunch daily nonstop service between its Doha hub and Philadelphia on 1 August 2026 — reclaiming a US East Coast gateway it abandoned in 2023, and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Singapore is about to do something only a handful of air forces on Earth can claim: fly a fifth-generation stealth fighter. After years of paperwork, options and parliamentary debate, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is on track to take delivery of its first...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The U.S. Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10 Warthog for the better part of two decades. Budget after budget, the brass penciled in its funeral. And every time, something refused to let it go quietly. This time it was Iran. After weeks of Warthogs hammering...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For a decade the U.S. Air Force kept trying to bury the F-15. The plan was to buy a token batch of new Eagles, then let the production line die quietly while everything went to stealth. The Eagle was the past. The F-35 and the secret sixth-generation jet were the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El aire del desierto aún estaba fresco en la base aérea Edwards la mañana del 27 de agosto de 1990 cuando el piloto de pruebas jefe de Northrop, Paul Metz, salió a la pista en una máquina que no se parecía a ninguna otra en la Tierra. De color gris carbón, con alas en forma de diamante, sus dos colas se inclinaban hacia afuera como las aletas...
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