Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
For forty years, aviation enthusiasts have chased a ghost. It has a name, a rumored shape, and a trail of strange evidence. What it does not have is a single confirmed photograph, a serial number, or an admission that it was ever built. The ghost is called Aurora, and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the darkest years of the Cold War, American engineers designed a weapon so appalling that many of the people building it were relieved when it was cancelled. It was a cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear reactor for an engine, and it was meant to fly for...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 3 de julio de 1950, apenas una semana después del inicio de la Guerra de Corea, el teniente Leonard Plog, de grado inferior, estrelló su avión a reacción de alas rectas contra la cola de un Yak-9 de hélice y apretó el gatillo. Fue el primer derribo aire-aire logrado por un avión a reacción de la Armada estadounidense, y pertenecía a un pequeño...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En el otoño de 1942, el caza más extraño de Estados Unidos yacía en el lecho seco de un lago en el desierto de Mojave, ocultando una mentira. Cada vez que el avión se estacionaba al aire libre, el personal de tierra atornillaba una hélice de madera falsa a su morro, porque la máquina que se escondía bajo el disfraz no tenía...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and “Frogfoot” by NATO...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Pregúntale a cualquiera que haya servido en Vietnam cómo sonaba la guerra, y muchos te darán la misma respuesta: un rítmico y cortante "whop-whop-whop" que resonaba entre los árboles. Era el sonido del Bell UH-1 —el Huey— y, dependiendo de en qué extremo estuvieras...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator murmuring headings, its...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect white cone up...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
When people picture wartime aircraft, they picture fighters and bombers. Almost no one pictures a helicopter — yet by 1942 Germany was flying a nimble little rotorcraft off the decks of warships, spotting submarines in the Baltic. It was the Flettner Fl 282...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
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