Los espías que persiguen a los combatientes ocultos de Ucrania
Share this story The most dangerous place for a Ukrainian fighter jet is not the sky. It is the ground. On August 13, 2026, Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, said it had dismantled a Russian intelligence network of fourteen people whose job was to find out...
El nuevo superportaaviones de Estados Unidos se prepara para su examen final.
Share this story A 100,000-ton warship does not slip quietly out to sea. On August 12, 2026, the future USS John F. Kennedy cast off from Newport News, Virginia, and pointed her bow at the Atlantic for the most important cruise of her life so far. These are her...
Trump ordena a la Armada que vuelva a operar a vapor.
Share this story For a quarter of a century the U.S. Navy bet the future of its supercarriers on a catapult with no steam and no pistons: a magnetic sled that flings a 30-ton fighter off the bow with a silent electromagnetic pulse. It cost billions to build and took...
XP-81, el primer caza de escolta turbohélice de Estados Unidos.
Share this story From the front it looks like a Mustang that ate a bigger meal. A four-bladed propeller, a long slim nose, a bubble canopy. Then you notice the jet exhaust at the tail, and the Convair XP-81 stops making sense in the best possible way. This was a...
Aermacchi MB-326, el jet de entrenamiento trotamundos de Italia
Share this story In the mid-1950s, a defeated and rebuilding Italy could not afford to chase supersonic fighters. So one Macchi engineer, Ermanno Bazzocchi, aimed lower and smarter. His compact single-engine trainer would go on to fly in the colours of more than ten...
Tweet del Cessna T-37, el avión a reacción que formó a generaciones
Share this story Every pilot who trained on it remembers the sound before the shape. Long before you saw the stubby little jet taxi out, you heard it: a shriek so piercing it seemed to drill straight through your skull. Ground crews had a name for the Cessna T-37 that...
Fouga Magister, un avión a reacción con cola de mariposa que fue a la guerra.
Share this story On the morning of 5 June 1967, a handful of little French-built trainers lifted off from Israeli airfields on what looked like a routine sortie. Within hours they were diving on armour in the Sinai. The Fouga Magister, a jet designed to teach...
Apuesta arriesgada con el avión de ala basculante Dynavert del Canadair CL-84
Share this story Picture a fat-bodied transport sitting on a Montreal ramp in 1965, engines spun up, and then the whole wing hinging skyward until the propellers point at the clouds. The aircraft rises straight up, hangs in the air, and then the wing tilts forward...
El primer Blackhawk fue un helicóptero de ataque que batió récords.
Share this story Before the UH-60 wore the name, there was another Blackhawk, and it was a snarling gunship. The Sikorsky S-67 first flew on 20 August 1970, a sleek, low-slung attack helicopter built entirely on Sikorsky’s own money in a frantic nine-month...
El helicóptero de ataque de Lockheed, capaz de alcanzar los 386 km/h, era el que temía el ejército.
Share this story At an airshow in December 1967, the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne did something helicopters were not supposed to do. It bowed. Landing on its two forward wheels, it dipped its nose to the crowd, then gently set its tail down and taxied away. The trick was...
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