Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En una cámara frigorífica oculta bajo el mercado de carne de Smithfield en Londres en 1943, tras una mampara de cadáveres de animales colgados, un futuro premio Nobel se afanaba en perfeccionar una receta. No para comida, sino para un material de construcción. Su tarea: demostrar que se podía construir...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A la una y un minuto de la madrugada del 20 de diciembre de 1989, la cálida oscuridad tropical que se extendía fuera del cuartel de la Fuerza de Defensa de Panamá en Río Hato se vio interrumpida por dos enormes explosiones. Los soldados cayeron de sus literas en medio de la confusión, escudriñando el cielo negro en busca de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The morning of 21 October 1947, a shape unlike anything that had ever left the ground rolled onto the sun-baked lakebed at Muroc Army Air Field. No fuselage. No tail. Just wing — 172 feet of it, curved and impossibly smooth, like something poured rather than built....
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Here’s something the U.S. Navy doesn’t put in the recruitment brochures: the hardest thing a naval aviator will ever do isn’t dogfighting, or dodging surface-to-air missiles, or threading a low-level attack run through a mountain valley. It’s...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Every fighter pilot trains for it. Most pray they’ll never experience it. The moment a jet engine — the machine that keeps you flying at 500 knots and 30,000 feet — stops working. Whether it’s a compressor stall that sounds like a cannon going off behind...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Grumman A-6 Intruder was not fast. It was not pretty. It could not dogfight. What it could do was find a target in zero visibility — in monsoon rain, in fog, at night, in conditions that grounded every other aircraft on the carrier deck — and put bombs on it. For...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The English Electric Lightning was not a sensible aircraft. It burned fuel at a rate that gave ground crews anxiety attacks. It had two Rolls-Royce Avon engines stacked vertically — one on top of the other — inside a fuselage so slim that the only place left for fuel...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The U.S. Navy’s next carrier-based fighter just dodged a bullet. After the Pentagon attempted to gut the F/A-XX program in favor of the Air Force’s F-47, Congress has intervened with force — inserting $897.3 million into the FY2026 defense spending bill, a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A decade after Boeing shuttered the C-17 Globemaster III production line in Long Beach, California, the unthinkable is back on the table. Boeing says it is “encouraged” by restart discussions with multiple operators, and the House Armed Services Committee...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Between 1955 and 1957, a B-36 bomber the size of a building flew over Texas and New Mexico with a live nuclear reactor humming in its belly. It was escorted everywhere by a planeload of armed Marines, ready to parachute down and seal off the area if it ever crashed....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1946, the U.S. Navy flew a fighter that couldn’t decide whether it belonged to the propeller age or the jet age — so it used both at once. The Ryan XF2R Dark Shark had a turboprop in the nose spinning a four-bladed propeller, and a turbojet buried in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The highest a jet has ever flown under its own power is not an American record, and it is nearly half a century old. On August 31, 1977, Soviet test pilot Alexandr Fedotov zoom-climbed a MiG-25 to 37,650 metres — 123,523 feet — and no air-breathing...
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