Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story For years the Indian Air Force could see the enemy long before it could hit him. Chinese fighters and airborne radar planes carry missiles that reach out past 200 kilometres; India’s Su-30MKI fleet, its heaviest hitter, had nothing that could match...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. La tarde del 24 de noviembre de 1971, un hombre tranquilo vestido con un traje de negocios se acercó al mostrador de Northwest Orient en Portland, Oregón, y pagó en efectivo un billete de ida a Seattle. Se identificó como Dan Cooper. Unas horas más tarde saldría de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a Scottish teenager was taken flying by a First World War fighter ace. As they landed, the German told the boy two things: learn to fly, and learn German. The boy did both — and grew up to fly more different aircraft...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Most fighter pilots come up through the same narrow chute: flight school, a commission, a cockpit before they are old enough to rent a car without a surcharge. Kenneth Gilmore came up through a football program. Before he ever pulled Gs, he was...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story For a week in the summer of 1976, more than a hundred people sat on the floor of a disused airport terminal in the heart of Africa, four thousand kilometres from home, and waited to find out whether they would be murdered. They had been separated —...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Gate 15 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a few minutes past midnight on the last day of August 1983. A Boeing 747 sits in the floodlights, doors open, while 246 passengers file aboard: businessmen bound for Taipei and Hong Kong, honeymooners,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky,...
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