Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Imagine hanging in space, five miles up, strapped into a single-seat jet that is not flying. It is dangling. Above your canopy, filling the entire sky, is the underside of the largest bomber the world has ever built, six propellers and four jets of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. La comparación surge apenas noventa segundos después de cualquier conversación sobre presupuestos de defensa. Europa se está rearmando, China está construyendo buques de guerra a un ritmo sin precedentes, y alguien lo dice: así se sentía antes de 1914. A veces recurren a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. En el verano de 1991, la Real Fuerza Aérea británica volaba Tornados supersónicos, se preparaba para el Eurofighter y acababa de presenciar el debut de aviones furtivos sobre Irak. Y el avión en el que confiaba para detectar amenazas entrantes y proteger las rutas de acceso norte a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On a moonless night in 1942, an RAF bomber crossing the Dutch coast flew into a wall it could not see. There was no barrier in the sky — only an invisible grid of radar beams, searchlights and waiting fighters, each box of it engineered to catch one...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The F-104 Starfighter has one of the worst reputations in military aviation. Germany bought 916 of them, lost 292, and buried 116 pilots. The Luftwaffe called it the Witwenmacher — the Widowmaker.On one night in January 1982, that aircraft did...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In November 1983, a 31-year-old Quebec pilot landed a light aircraft by himself at a small airfield in Georgia. It was loaded with marijuana, flown up from Jamaica. Police were waiting.He was sentenced to five years and served sixteen months. He...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Count the engines on a Dornier Do 31 and you get to ten. Two of them are Pegasus turbofans, the same vectored-thrust engines that made the Harrier work. The other eight do nothing whatsoever in cruise. They sit in pods on the wingtips, four a side,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story On the morning of 12 May 1940, No. 12 Squadron was asked for volunteers. The target was a pair of bridges over the Albert Canal near Maastricht, across which the German Army was walking into Belgium. Everyone in the squadron volunteered.Five Fairey...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Ninety seconds before he put an Airbus A320 into a river, Chesley Sullenberger said something entirely ordinary. It was 3:26 in the afternoon on 15 January 2009, the aircraft was climbing away from LaGuardia, and he looked left out of the window....
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The cargo compartment of a C-5A Galaxy is the size of a small warehouse. On the afternoon of 4 April 1975, the crew at Tan Son Nhut filled the lower deck of one with cardboard boxes, and into the boxes they put babies — two and three to a box,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The radar worked. That was the strange part. It could see aircraft, track them, and hand the picture to the operators behind it. It simply could not do so reliably, or for long, or against the one category of target the entire programme existed to...
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