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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 27 June 1969, a North American B-25 Mitchell lifted off from Fairbanks, Alaska, lost an engine moments later, and came down wheels-up on a sandbar in the middle of the Tanana River. Everyone walked away. The bomber did not. Recovering it would have cost more than...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2024, a crimson-and-white flying boat the size of an airliner lifted off a lake on Vancouver Island for the last time. Tens of thousands of people lined the shore. Nine red Snowbirds jets slid into formation alongside her. And a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our ten-part focus series. Part 9 flew the atomic missions; this piece goes back three months earlier, into the room where a handful of men decided which cities would live and which would die — and why the city at the top of the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Imagina que eres un piloto de combate que acaba de saltar en paracaídas sobre un mar frío y agitado, lejos de tierra firme, con la costa enemiga a la vista. Estás solo en medio del oleaje, hasta que oyes motores y un enorme y desgarbado hidroavión cae del cielo y aterriza en mar abierto...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 11 June 1940, the people of Malta looked up at a sky suddenly full of Italian bombers and saw, rising to meet them, a handful of fabric-and-wire biplanes that looked like relics from the last war. They were relics. And for ten desperate days, they were all the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Imaginen una única pista de tierra excavada en la jungla, rodeada de tocones de palmeras y cráteres de bombas, con un puñado de cazas maltrechos estacionados en el barro. Todos los días era bombardeada. Algunas noches, era atacada por acorazados. Y desde allí, una fuerza improvisada de infantes de marina, marineros y...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Había un tramo de cielo entre India y China tan letal que los hombres que lo sobrevolaban decían que se podía navegar guiándose por los restos de los aviones que se encontraban debajo. Lo llamaban la Joroba, y durante tres años, un flujo ininterrumpido de aviones de transporte cruzó las montañas más altas de la Tierra, en...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Part 9 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Everything in this series converges here: the physics of Part 1, the exiles of Part 2, the bomb of Part 5, the aircraft of Part 7, the fire doctrine of Part 8. Two missions, four days, one surrender....
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