Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On May 19, 2026, the United States Air Force ordered an operational pause for its entire fleet of T-38 Talon jet trainers. Every T-38 across every command—Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Force Global...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There is an aircraft that first flew when Harry Truman was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 —el prototipo de lo que se convertiría en el 707— tenía previsto sobrevolar la zona en una demostración para posibles aerolíneas...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 Airfield, lifted its...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 metal disc,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 degrees, and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 afterburner. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 radar operator....
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