Aviación militar, Noticias
Two accounts of the same night at the same air base went public within a day of each other this week. They do not agree. The first came from US officials speaking on condition of anonymity to CBS News, to Reuters and to Air & Space Forces Magazine. In their...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The white jet with the blue-and-yellow tail sat on the apron at Chișinău on Tuesday afternoon with nowhere to go. Volodymyr Zelensky was due in Oslo that evening for the funeral of King Harald V, a state occasion with more than 150 inbound flights and a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For thirty-odd years, the Oregon Air National Guard had exactly one job: shoot down the other guy. Its F-15 C-models were pure air-superiority machines, and the wing was very good at it. Bombing was somebody else’s problem. On 27 August 2026, an F-15EX Eagle II...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Stand at the fence at almost any air base and the fin of a fighter will tell you, if you can read it, which country owns the aircraft, which base it lives at, which squadron flies it, which year it was ordered, and occasionally whether the person strapped into it...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The story usually goes like this. Germany built a wooden night fighter to match the de Havilland Mosquito. It was fast and it worked. Then the RAF bombed the single factory making the special glue that held it together, the substitute adhesive was corrosive, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1949, English Electric wanted to build a supersonic fighter with sixty degrees of wing sweep. Nobody in the world had flown a wing swept that far. The Royal Aircraft Establishment thought it would be uncontrollable at low speed, and said so. There was no...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 5 December 1941, Squadron Leader A. E. Hill flew a photo-reconnaissance Spitfire along the Normandy coast at very low level and took a photograph of a clifftop near a village called Bruneval. In it, next to a villa, sits a large white dish. British scientists had...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1982, forty years after the last one made sense, a Soviet design bureau flew a jet attack aircraft with a rear gunner. Not a token installation. A proper remotely-controlled tail turret with a twin-barrelled 23 mm cannon, aimed by a second crewman sitting in his...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Every airborne early warning aircraft in the world looks broadly the same: a transport or an airliner with an enormous rotating dish balanced on struts above the fuselage. The Hawkeye does it. The Sentry does it. Even GlobalEye, which uses a fixed array rather than a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In January 1943, Allied aircraft in New Guinea flew 416 sorties against a single Japanese convoy and sank two ships. Six weeks later, over three days in the Bismarck Sea, the same air force attacked another convoy and sank all eight transports and half its destroyer...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 00:16 on 6 June 1944, a wooden glider carrying twenty-eight men hit the ground at over ninety miles an hour, tore through barbed wire, and stopped about fifty yards from a bridge over the Caen Canal. It had been cast off from a bomber at 7,000 feet nine minutes...
Aviación militar, Noticias
You can learn a surprising amount about a secret aeroplane from the buildings people put up for it. On 10 September 2026, the US Army Corps of Engineers awarded Conti Federal Services a $74.8 million contract to build a radio frequency and measurements hangar for the...
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