Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On Christmas Eve 1944, American troops dug in near Liège heard something wrong in the sky. Not the familiar growl of piston engines, but a smooth, piercing roar. Sleek aircraft swept overhead, dropped their bombs, and simply accelerated away....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 7 August 1945 — the day after Hiroshima — a small, silver twin-jet lifted off the runway at Kisarazu Naval Air Base. For about twenty minutes, Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka flew Japan’s first jet aircraft, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It is one of the Second World War’s most durable legends: that in January 1944 a giant six-engined German bomber took off from occupied France, crossed the Atlantic, flew to within sight of Manhattan, photographed the skyline, and slipped home...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story By 1944, Germany’s bomber fleets were spent, and the V-1 flying bomb — the “buzz bomb” — was terrorising London with one glaring flaw: it could miss a target the size of Greater London entirely. Someone proposed a brutally simple fix...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In 1939 the U.S. Army Air Corps put out a request for something deliberately radical — a fighter that broke the rules of how a fighter should be built. Vultee’s answer was the XP-54: a twin-boom machine with an inverted gull wing, the engine and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia El 6 de julio de 2026, el vuelo BA919 de British Airways procedente de Düsseldorf se encontraba en su aproximación inicial a la pista 27L del aeropuerto de Londres Heathrow cuando la aeronave, un Airbus A320-232 con matrícula G-EUUN, perdió una información en la que la mayoría de los pasajeros nunca piensan:...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Algunos aviones impresionan por su ingenio. El Tupolev Tu-160 impresiona, en primer lugar, por sus enormes dimensiones. Con 54,1 metros (177 pies 6 pulgadas), es más largo que un Boeing B-52, y con las alas extendidas mide 55,7 metros (182 pies 9 pulgadas) de punta a punta...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Few aircraft state their purpose as plainly as the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant. It was a barn with wings: a slab-sided freighter with a wingspan of 55.2 metres (181 ft 1 in), a nose that split open into clamshell doors, and a cargo hold eleven metres...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story An airliner is steered by its hydraulics. They move the ailerons, the elevators, the rudder — every control surface the pilots touch. Take away all of it and, in theory, the aircraft becomes an unsteerable projectile. On 22 November 2003, a DHL...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Some aircraft are remembered for a great victory. The Blackburn Firebrand is remembered for missing the war entirely. Conceived as a naval fighter, rebuilt as a torpedo carrier, and delivered only after the guns fell silent in 1945, it is one of...
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