Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story In 1935 the Soviet Union built the largest aircraft on Earth — an eight-engined giant with a wingspan to rival a modern Boeing 747, fitted out not with weapons but with a printing press, a photographic lab, a telephone exchange, a cinema, and a radio...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story He was 31 years old — ancient by fighter-pilot standards — which is how a hard-drinking, twice-divorced Marine named Gregory Boyington got the nickname “Pappy.” He was also, by 1943, something close to washed up: a former Flying Tiger with...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story He was born in Brazil, to a father from Alsace and a mother from Lorraine, and learned to fly at a club in Rio. He would end the war a wing commander in the Royal Air Force at the age of twenty-four, and General de Gaulle would call him...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story It was a little before nine on the night of 18 April 1995, and Captain Brian Udell was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle out over the black Atlantic off North Carolina. Beside him sat his weapons systems officer, Captain Dennis White. It was routine...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At 11:20 on the morning of 25 January 1966, a Lockheed test pilot named Bill Weaver lifted an SR-71 Blackbird off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Beside him, in the reconnaissance systems officer’s seat, sat Jim Zwayer. A few hours later,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Algunos aviones de guerra se hicieron famosos en combates aéreos, surcando el cielo con sus ametralladoras disparando sin cesar. El McDonnell F-101 Voodoo se hizo famoso haciendo lo contrario: volando bajo, a toda velocidad y completamente desarmado, directamente sobre la gente que intentaba...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. Algunos aviones impresionan por su ingenio. El Tupolev Tu-160 impresiona, en primer lugar, por sus enormes dimensiones. Con 54,1 metros (177 pies 6 pulgadas), es más largo que un Boeing B-52, y con las alas extendidas mide 55,7 metros (182 pies 9 pulgadas) de punta a punta...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. De vez en cuando, la historia de la aviación nos presenta un avión cuyo mayor logro fue simplemente existir. El Bell P-59 Airacomet es el santo patrón de ese club. Fue el primer avión a reacción de Estados Unidos, un verdadero hito, y sin embargo fue tan...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Most military aircraft can be summed up in a single job. Fighters fight. Bombers bomb. Attack helicopters attack. And then there is the Mil Mi-24, a machine that looked at the neat little boxes military planners like to draw and cheerfully refused to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Ask anyone who was there and they will tell you the same thing: you heard it before you saw it. A low, chopping pulse rolling in over the treeline, whop-whop-whop, growing until it filled the whole sky. For a generation of soldiers, that sound meant...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That...
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