Aviación militar, Noticias
El mensaje provino del Comando de Operaciones Aéreas en Yakarta, y para los noventa y cinco hombres y mujeres del Escuadrón Aéreo 15 significó algo que ninguno de ellos había hecho antes: empacar cinco aviones, cruzar el mar de Arafura e ir a volar con el mundo. Por primera vez, los indonesios...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with the first aircraft...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Ten nights in, the pattern has become grimly familiar. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eastern on 20 July, U.S. Central Command announced it had finished another round of strikes on Iran — the tenth consecutive night — hitting military command centres, missile and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Yakarta fue de compras en busca de un avión de combate de primera línea y, en cambio, regresó a casa con un entrenador muy inteligente que contraataca. En Farnborough, el 21 de julio, Leonardo y su socio indonesio PT ESystem Solutions firmaron un contrato con el Ministerio de Defensa de Indonesia por 12...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Australia construyó el Ghost Bat. Resulta que Europa ha estado ayudando discretamente todo este tiempo, y en Farnborough, Boeing finalmente lo dijo en voz alta. El 21 de julio, el director global del programa MQ-28, Glen Ferguson, confirmó que la empresa italiana Leonardo se ha convertido en un socio oficial...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Modern air defense has a money problem, and everybody knows it. A single Patriot shot can cost more than the drone it swats down, and in a war where the incoming threats are cheap and endless, the math eventually breaks the defender, not the attacker. At Farnborough...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
There is a company on the New York Stock Exchange today whose name is a peace treaty between two men who spent a decade trying to destroy each other in court. Orville and Wilbur Wright patented powered flight. Glenn Curtiss started building aeroplanes anyway. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 5:55 on the evening of Friday 4 October 1918, a small biplane with cardboard wings and a papier-mâché body lifted off a wheeled dolly running down a portable track near Dayton, Ohio. There was nobody aboard and nobody controlling it. It was supposed to fly a preset...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The test subject was a pig. It was chosen because its nervous system is close enough to a human’s for the results to mean something, and because nobody was quite willing to find out the other way first. The pig was harnessed to a nylon line, a helium balloon...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, Howard Hughes was seventy-five minutes into the first official flight of his new reconnaissance aircraft when the right side of it stopped cooperating. Every instrument said the engine was fine. It was. What had failed was one half of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut into the floor at his feet. The Vought V-173 was a flat disc with two enormous propellers on the front and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung along their coastline. It did the Luftwaffe no good whatsoever, because...
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