Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the technology of its...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 during a visit to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 3 de julio de 1950, apenas una semana después del inicio de la Guerra de Corea, el teniente Leonard Plog, de grado inferior, estrelló su avión a reacción de alas rectas contra la cola de un Yak-9 de hélice y apretó el gatillo. Fue el primer derribo aire-aire logrado por un avión a reacción de la Armada estadounidense, y pertenecía a un pequeño...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Pregúntale a cualquiera que haya servido en Vietnam cómo sonaba la guerra, y muchos te darán la misma respuesta: un rítmico y cortante "whop-whop-whop" que resonaba entre los árboles. Era el sonido del Bell UH-1 —el Huey— y, dependiendo de en qué extremo estuvieras...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Thirteen minutes after leaving Birmingham on the morning of 10 June 1990, the pilots of British Airways Flight 5390 had loosened their shoulder straps and set breakfast on their laps. Then, with a bang like a bomb, the left cockpit windscreen tore away — and...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In the late 1920s, a young man named Willard Custer watched a windstorm peel the roof off a barn. The roof did not slide forward and lift like an aircraft; it simply rose straight up as the wind screamed over it. Custer had a revelation that would consume the rest of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the first days of October 1973, Israel was losing. Egyptian and Syrian armies had struck on Yom Kippur, and Israeli tanks and aircraft were being destroyed faster than the country could replace them. Then, out of the western sky, came the sound of salvation: the...
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