Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the Fourth of July 1989, two American F-15 pilots on alert in the Netherlands were scrambled to intercept an intruder crossing into NATO airspace. What they found was a real Soviet fighter, deep over Western Europe — with no one flying it.It became one of the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did — rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a few desperate...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Thirteen minutes after leaving Birmingham on the morning of 10 June 1990, the pilots of British Airways Flight 5390 had loosened their shoulder straps and set breakfast on their laps. Then, with a bang like a bomb, the left cockpit windscreen tore away — and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
By 1944 the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was already one of the biggest, heaviest single-engine fighters of the war — a seven-ton brute that pilots adored. Then Republic asked a wild question: what if we made it even bigger, and bolted on the most powerful piston...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Cut a hole in the side of a jumbo jet, point a two-and-a-half-metre telescope out of it, and fly the whole contraption into the stratosphere at night. It sounds like a terrible idea. For twelve years, it was one of the most productive telescopes in the world.It was...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In the late 1920s, a young man named Willard Custer watched a windstorm peel the roof off a barn. The roof did not slide forward and lift like an aircraft; it simply rose straight up as the wind screamed over it. Custer had a revelation that would consume the rest of...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Imagine a cargo plane that works like a truck and trailer. It lands, drops off a fully loaded box, clips on an empty one, and is airborne again in minutes — while ground crews unload the box it left behind. In 1950, Fairchild actually built that airplane. It was...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked American industry a genuinely strange question: could a fighter take off straight up, standing on its tail, from a platform on the back of a warship? Lockheed’s answer was a stubby little aircraft that pointed its nose at...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Long before the Predator, before the Reaper, before a single Hellfire was ever fired from an unmanned aircraft, a little jet-powered drone with a bug’s name was already flying spy missions over the most heavily defended airspace on Earth. It was called the Ryan...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En los primeros días de octubre de 1973, Israel estaba perdiendo. Los ejércitos egipcio y sirio habían atacado durante Yom Kippur, y los tanques y aviones israelíes eran destruidos más rápido de lo que el país podía reemplazarlos. Entonces, desde el cielo occidental, llegó el sonido de la salvación: el...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Es blanco, enorme y más rápido que casi cualquier otro avión con bodega de bombas. Las tripulaciones rusas llaman al Tupolev Tu-160 el “Cisne Blanco” por su pintura pálida antirreflejos y sus líneas sorprendentemente elegantes. El resto del mundo lo conoce por su nombre de la OTAN:….
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