Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Colócate cerca de un Antonov An-22 mientras arranca sus motores y no solo lo oirás, sino que lo sentirás. Cuatro de los motores turbohélice más potentes jamás construidos hacen girar ocho enormes hélices, cada una describiendo un círculo más alto que una casa, y el sonido es profundo y desgarrador...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 21 de marzo de 1999, dos hombres exhaustos hicieron descender un imponente globo plateado sobre el desierto egipcio y entraron en los libros de historia. Bertrand Piccard y Brian Jones acababan de lograr lo que los pioneros habían intentado sin éxito durante décadas: dar la vuelta al mundo en avión...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Sin motor. Sin combustible para aviones. Sin cohete. Solo un esbelto planeador blanco, cuyas largas alas se alimentaban de invisibles corrientes de aire ascendente, ascendiendo más alto que un avión espía U-2 hacia la gélida oscuridad de la estratosfera. En 2018, el planeador sin motor Perlan 2 alcanzó los 76.124 pies...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted by the Canadian...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
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