Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Bessie Coleman walked into every flying school in Chicago and was turned away from every one. The year was 1919. No American flight school would accept a student who was both Black and a woman. Most would not accept her for either reason alone. A lesser person would...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The morning of 16 April 1912 was perfect — or so it seemed. Harriet Quimby stood at Folkestone, England, in her trademark plum-coloured flying suit, preparing to become the first woman to fly the English Channel. There was one problem. Fog had rolled in over the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 1 de noviembre de 1950, pilotos de la ONU sobre Corea del Norte se toparon con algo inesperado: un caza a reacción de ala en flecha, más rápido, más ágil y mejor armado que cualquier otro avión de su arsenal. El MiG-15 apareció sobre el río Yalu, la frontera entre Corea del Norte y Corea del Norte.
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Estuvo despierto durante 23 horas antes incluso de despegar. Charles Lindbergh pasó la noche del 19 de mayo de 1927 en un hotel cerca de Roosevelt Field, en Long Island, sin poder dormir, mientras la lluvia azotaba el aeródromo y los informes meteorológicos del Atlántico eran, en el mejor de los casos, ambiguos. En...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Todos los pilotos militares que vuelan hoy en día se sientan en un dispositivo que puede expulsarlos de una aeronave averiada en una fracción de segundo. Desde el momento en que se acciona la palanca hasta el despliegue completo del paracaídas transcurren menos de dos segundos. El asiento impulsa a su ocupante a una fuerza de hasta 20 g y una velocidad de 965 km/h (600 mph)...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Louis Blériot was flying on a badly burned foot. His monoplane — a fragile structure of spruce, ash, and rubberised canvas — had a 25-horsepower engine that overheated on long runs. He had no compass. No radio. No life jacket. As he climbed to 250 feet over the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1924, flying around the world meant crossing the Pacific Ocean in open biplanes, with engines that had to be rebuilt every few thousand miles, relying on supply ships pre-positioned across the widest ocean on Earth by a US Navy that had deployed its vessels months...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
They were bicycle mechanics. No formal engineering degrees, no government funding, no team of PhDs. Just Wilbur and Orville Wright, a shed in Dayton, Ohio, and an obsession that bordered on madness. By the time they arrived at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The US Army Air Forces didn’t want them. The military establishment was convinced, and had “proved” through pseudo-scientific studies, that Black men lacked the intelligence, the nerve, and the coordination to fly combat aircraft. When political...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 18 April 1942, four months after Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet — something that had never been done before and would never be attempted again — and flew 1,000 miles to bomb Tokyo. The military damage they...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Quick FactsNationalityPakistani 🇵🇰Aerial Victories9 (5 in under 60 seconds — world record sortie)Aircraft FlownF-86 SabreWars1965 Indo-Pakistani WarBorn / Died6 Jul 1935 – 18 Mar 2013 (age 77)UnitNo. 11 Squadron PAF “Arrows” Mohammad Mahmood Alam 1965 —...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In 1936, American Airlines president C.R. Smith made an audacious request to Donald Douglas: build an airliner that could carry passengers across America in 16 hours and make money doing it. The result was the Douglas DC-3 — an aircraft so well-designed that it...
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