Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 17 May 1935, the man who would later write The Little Prince climbed aboard the largest aircraft on Earth. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in Moscow reporting for a French newspaper, was the only foreigner allowed onto the Tupolev ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” —...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Toma una bomba volante V-1 —el misil de crucero no tripulado que aterrorizó Londres en 1944— y haz un pequeño agujero en el fuselaje justo delante del motor. Instala un asiento de madera contrachapada, una sola columna de control y un puñado de instrumentos básicos. Ahora coloca a un joven...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Para 1942, Eddie Rickenbacker ya había burlado a la muerte más veces que la mayoría de los hombres. Fue el "As de Ases" de Estados Unidos durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un expiloto de las 500 Millas de Indianápolis y el enérgico director de Eastern Air Lines. Estaba en sus inicios...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
He was twenty-one, a copper miner’s son from Phoenix with a boxer’s swagger and a habit of ignoring orders. In the last September of the First World War, Second Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. turned himself into the most feared balloon-hunter in the skies over...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 21 September 1953, a flight line at Kimpo Air Base watched a swept-wing jet swing onto the approach and took it for one of their own F-86 Sabres. It wasn’t. It was a Soviet-built MiG-15, still wearing North Korean red stars, flown by a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was the most meticulously rehearsed rescue mission in modern US military history — and it saved nobody. In the pre-dawn dark of 21 November 1970, a joint Army–Air Force strike force punched 23 miles into North Vietnam, straight past Hanoi’s...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
He was 31 years old — ancient by fighter-pilot standards — which is how a hard-drinking, twice-divorced Marine named Gregory Boyington got the nickname “Pappy.” He was also, by 1943, something close to washed up: a former Flying Tiger with a reputation for...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was a little before nine on the night of 18 April 1995, and Captain Brian Udell was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle out over the black Atlantic off North Carolina. Beside him sat his weapons systems officer, Captain Dennis White. It was routine training — four jets...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s parliament approved the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture a field in occupied France. It is a little after midnight, and there is a full moon riding above the poplars. Three people stand in the wet grass, holding bicycle lamps, hearts going like drums. They are listening. And then they hear it: a single engine, far...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 15 July 1942, eight American warplanes went hunting for a break in the weather over the North Atlantic and found the roof of the world instead. They had left Greenland at first light, bound for Iceland and then the war in Europe, but a wall of cloud...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no landmarks — bordered...
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