Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Here is a fact that sounds invented: to bail out of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster, you first had to blow your own propellers off. The two blades spinning behind the tail would have shredded anyone who jumped, so Douglas wired the tailcone with...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In 1925, somewhere in the American countryside, Willard Ray Custer watched a windstorm peel the roof clean off a barn. Most people would have seen a repair bill. Custer saw physics. The roof had not moved forward — yet it rose. He reasoned that...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It was a little after ten on the night of 24 March 1944, and the pine woods of Lower Silesia were locked hard in frost. Some yards short of the tree line, the earth stirred, then opened. A head appeared, then a pair of shoulders in a made-over...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In the autumn of 1940, a young man from Iowa or California or Brooklyn would stand at a Canadian train station with a suitcase and a lie ready on his lips. He was not, officially, going to war. His government had made that illegal. Joining the armed...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Picture the Philippine Sea at mid-morning on 19 June 1944. The water is glassy, the horizon hazed with heat, and 25,000 feet up a Grumman Hellcat pilot is watching a stain spread across the sky to the west. It is not weather. It is aircraft —...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story A bystander in Wichita, Kansas points a phone at the sky. A large, grey, tailless shape slides overhead near McConnell Air Force Base. The footage is shaky, the shape is unmistakable-but-not-quite — and within hours the internet has decided it...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Five months after two Iranian bombers were blown out of the sky short of a US air base in Qatar, a strange and very human question has resurfaced: what happened to the men who were flying them? On 15 August, Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story Aircraft carriers are the ultimate way for a navy to say “we are here.” So when two of them quietly swap ends of the same sea in the same week, it is worth paying attention. That is what happened in mid-August. As the American carrier USS...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story On a sun-baked runway in north-eastern Thailand, two very different ideas of a modern fighter are parked wingtip to wingtip. On one side, China’s J-10C — the same delta-winged jet that Pakistan says it flew against Indian Rafales in 2025....
Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story In the small hours of 15 August, air-raid sirens climbed over Russia’s Samara region. Minutes later, residents nearly 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border were filming a wall of orange fire rising above an industrial district — the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In June 1941 the United States rolled out a bomber so large that a B-17 could have parked under one of its wings. The Douglas XB-19 spanned 212 feet, carried sleeping bunks and a kitchen for its relief crew, and was, for a time, the largest aircraft...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On a freezing April night in 1978, a South Korean airliner full of sleeping passengers wandered a thousand miles off course, over one of the most secret corners of the Soviet Union, and was hit by an air-to-air missile. What happened next is one of...
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