Comparte esta historia. Derribó más aviones enemigos que cualquier otro caza aliado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y mató a un número espeluznante de los jóvenes enviados a pilotarlo, antes incluso de que conocieran a un alemán. El Sopwith Camel fue el mejor caza de combate aéreo de 1917 y...
Comparte esta historia. En 1943, un ingeniero de 33 años prometió a las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos un avión de combate a reacción en 180 días. Alquiló una carpa de circo, la instaló junto a una fábrica de plásticos maloliente en Burbank, reunió a un grupo selecto de ingenieros y entregó el XP-80...
Comparte esta historia. He aquí una forma barata de aterrorizar a un planificador naval: toma un avión de carga común, saca una paleta de misiles de crucero por la parte trasera y deja que vuelen solos hacia el objetivo. La Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. lleva años perfeccionando este truco bajo el nombre de Rapid...
Share this story Poland’s stealth fighter has, until now, been an American export — built in Fort Worth, Texas, and flown across the Atlantic. This week that changed. The first Polish F-35A assembled in Europe, at Leonardo’s final-assembly line in...
Share this story Archer Aviation spent years promising to fly you across a city in a whisper-quiet electric air taxi. At Farnborough this week it revealed something rather different: a pilotless, hybrid-electric tiltrotor built with the defence-technology firm...
Share this story The reveal came without a flypast, without a scream of afterburner. On the second day of the Farnborough International Airshow, BAE Systems pulled a cover from a matt-grey, tailless aircraft roughly the size of a Hawk trainer and gave Britain its...
Share this story On the morning of 1 April 2001, a lumbering American spy plane and a hot-rod Chinese fighter touched wingtips over the South China Sea. One aircraft limped away with its nose torn off and 24 terrified people aboard. The other broke in half and fell...
Share this story There is a place in the sky where flying too slow will kill you and flying too fast will kill you — and the gap between the two can be narrower than the length of a bus. Pilots call it the coffin corner, and it is one of the strangest, most...
Share this story Every couple of years, the aviation industry decamps to a former airfield in Hampshire and spends a week trying to out-announce itself. Farnborough 2026 is no exception — and by the close of the second day, the scoreboard had already ticked past...
Share this story Hunting a submarine is a team sport. This year, at the world’s largest naval exercise, the team stopped stopping at national borders — and started sharing the same aircraft.For the first time at RIMPAC, the U.S. Navy is flying mixed...
Share this story The message came from Air Operations Command in Jakarta, and for the ninety-five men and women of Skadron Udara 15 it meant something none of them had done before: pack up five jets, cross the Arafura Sea, and go fly with the world.For the first time,...
Share this story The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with...
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