Comparte esta historia. Bill Allen, presidente de Boeing, observaba las carreras de hidroaviones en el lago Washington desde un yate de la compañía el 7 de agosto de 1955. El nuevo Boeing 367-80, prototipo de lo que se convertiría en el 707, tenía previsto sobrevolar la zona en una demostración para...
Share this story On August 3, 1945, a Japanese test pilot named Masayoshi Tsuruno climbed into the strangest fighter prototype Japan had ever built and pushed the throttle forward. The aircraft trundled along the runway at Kyūshū Aircraft Company’s Mushiroda...
Share this story If you ever stand in front of the gigantic Cold War hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, you will see, parked between an XB-70 Valkyrie and a YF-12, something that looks like it landed there yesterday — a domed...
Share this story In 1960, in a hangar at the Bell Aircraft plant at Niagara Falls, New York, Bell unveiled the wildest single-seat fighter ever proposed by an American manufacturer. It had a needle-nosed fuselage, two wing-tip nacelles that could swivel through 100...
El 1 de agosto de 1955, Tony LeVier despegó de un extraño avión Lockheed de un lecho de lago seco en el desierto de Nevada. La aeronave tenía alas increíblemente largas y estrechas, como un planeador motorizado, y estaba propulsada por un solo motor a reacción. Ascendía como ningún otro avión que hubiera pilotado antes...
Share this story On 10 September 1956, in the high desert above Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation's chief test pilot Bob Baker pushed the throttle of an aircraft nobody outside the U.S. Air Force fighter procurement office had ever heard of into...
Share this story In late 1958, in the high Texas sky over Naval Air Station Dallas, Vought's chief test pilot John Konrad flew an aircraft that could outmanoeuvre, outclimb, outrun and outturn the future F-4 Phantom II. The aircraft had a single engine. It had no...
Share this story Seventy-four years ago today — 19 May 1952 — at Edwards Air Force Base in the high California desert, Grumman test pilot Corwin “Corky” Meyer climbed into the cockpit of an aircraft so strange that nobody else in the U.S. Navy...
Share this story Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150...
La rutina era imposible. Bob Hoover despegaba en su Rockwell Shrike Commander —un avión de negocios bimotor, no un avión acrobático—, ascendía a gran altitud y apagaba ambos motores. Luego, impulsado únicamente por la inercia y la gravedad, realizaba un rizo y un...
Share this story On the morning of 18 June 1914 — ten years and six months after Orville Wright lifted off Kitty Hawk — a 21-year-old American named Lawrence Burst Sperry flew a Curtiss C-2 biplane down the Seine at 50 feet above the water in front of a crowd of...
El 13 de septiembre de 1935, Howard Hughes se subió a la cabina de un elegante avión de carreras plateado de su propio diseño y lo voló a 352,39 mph en un recorrido medido en Santa Ana, California, más rápido que cualquier avión terrestre en la historia. Tenía 29 años y ya había...
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