Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Un vuelo corto dentro del país entre Corpus Christi y Dallas/Fort Worth es de lo más rutinario. Pero un vuelo de American Airlines este mes hizo historia discretamente: fue el primer servicio comercial de pasajeros en Estados Unidos impulsado por eSAF, un...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Poco después del amanecer del lunes, las sirenas antiaéreas y el zumbido de los motores llegaron a una ciudad que la mayor parte de la guerra no había tocado. Nizhnekamsk se encuentra a unos 1200 kilómetros (750 millas) del territorio ucraniano más cercano, en pleno corazón de la república rusa de Tartaristán. A media mañana...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A Marine fighter squadron that flew its last Hornet into retirement in 2023 is coming back — and this time it is coming back for the carrier deck.On 31 July 2026, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115, the “Silver Eagles,” flew the F-35C Lightning II...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is the kind of thing a weekend pilot never expects to see filling the windscreen: the grey nose of an F-16 Fighting Falcon sliding into formation a few wingspans away, wings heavy with missiles. On Sunday, at least one general-aviation pilot over New Jersey got...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For two days this weekend, the flattest stretch of Nebraska turns into the loudest. Offutt Air Force Base throws open its gates on 8 and 9 August for the 2026 Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show, and the headline act is the one everyone came to see: a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most Vietnam-era warplanes are long gone — melted into scrap or bolted to a museum pole. The OV-10 Bronco keeps refusing to leave. Built to fight guerrillas in the 1960s, the funny little twin-boom turboprop has come roaring back again and again: over the Mekong...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
By a decades-old agreement between the U.S. services, the Army isn’t really supposed to fly its own combat aeroplanes — that job belongs to the Air Force. The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is the great exception: a stubby, triple-tailed, bug-eyed turboprop built for...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In the opening minutes of Octopussy (1983), Roger Moore’s James Bond escapes an exploding hangar in a jet barely bigger than he is, outruns a heat-seeking missile, then coasts up to a petrol station and deadpans: “Fill her up, please.” The joke works...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For nearly half a century, the growl of the A-10 Warthog was the soundtrack of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. On 29 July, that sound faded for good — and now the Air Force is moving fast to fill the silence with something very different. With the last Warthogs...
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