Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States lay awake at night worrying about Soviet bombers slipping across the Arctic in the dark. The aircraft it scrambled to meet them was the Lockheed F-94 Starfire — the first American jet fighter with an...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Algunos aviones se cancelan porque fallan. El Douglas F5D Skylancer se canceló porque era demasiado bueno, llegó demasiado tarde y fue construido por la compañía equivocada. Alcanzó la velocidad supersónica en su primer vuelo, se manejó de maravilla e impresionó a todos los pilotos que...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Take an F-16 Fighting Falcon, throw away its wing, and bolt on a vast cranked-arrow delta that nearly doubles its area. Stretch the fuselage, cram in 65 percent more fuel, and hang bombs from twenty-seven stations. What you get flies farther, carries...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story When the Grumman X-29 stunned airshow crowds in the 1980s with wings that swept the wrong way, and again when Russia rolled out the Su-47 Berkut, both were hailed as radical leaps. Neither was first. A German bomber had already flown on forward-swept...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the early 1950s the United States, home of Boeing and Douglas and the world’s mightiest aircraft industry, went shopping abroad for a bomber. It bought a British one. The Martin B-57 Canberra — an American-built version of the English...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force wanted a single machine that could climb fast, find a Soviet bomber on its own radar, and kill it with a bay full of missiles before it reached an American city. The answer was the F-102 Delta Dagger — the...
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