Share this story A stealth aircraft that hangs its bombs under the wings is not really a stealth aircraft. The whole point of a low-observable shape is undone the moment you bolt angular metal to the outside of it. That is why the milestone Baykar announced on 30 July...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
Comparte esta historia. Cada avión a reacción de ala en flecha en el que hayas volado alguna vez lleva un pequeño e incansable sistema de automatización cuya única función es evitar que la aeronave se balancee. El movimiento que suprime tiene un nombre que suena casi cómico: balanceo holandés. No es ni una pérdida de sustentación ni...
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...
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...
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...
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