Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1969 the Chinese air force asked for a fighter small enough to be carried on the back of a truck. The idea was that in a war on Chinese soil, airfields would be bombed flat within days. What survived would be whatever could be hidden, dispersed and flown off short...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On 21 August 1963 a Tupolev Tu-124 ran out of fuel over the middle of Leningrad, glided for fourteen seconds, cleared a bridge, and landed on the River Neva without killing anybody. A tug that happened to be towing a raft of timber past the spot cast off, came...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets behind their seats....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1965 the Republic of China Air Force built two graves at the Bitan military cemetery outside Taipei. One was for Major Yeh Changti, the other for Major Chang Liyi. Both men had been shot down over communist China. Both had been declared dead. The Central Daily News...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 12 September 1958, the Soviet Union told the United States that it had found the wreck of an American aeroplane in Armenia, and that from the remains discovered there it might be assumed that six crewmen had perished. Seventeen men had been on board. A week later,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 4 December 1956, an Italian test pilot pointed a small silver aeroplane downhill from above 40,000 feet and became the first man to take an Italian-designed, Italian-built aircraft through the sound barrier. The aircraft was the Aerfer Sagittario 2. Two were built....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 30 July 1970, four Israeli Mirages flew a routine photo-reconnaissance profile over the Gulf of Suez. They climbed to 35,000 feet, made the standard radio calls, and flew in a formation so tight that Soviet radar operators read four aircraft as two. They were not...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En noviembre de 1955, el gobierno británico canceló un avión de transporte a reacción de cuatro motores que estaba construido en un 80%, alegando que nadie en Gran Bretaña lo quería. Once meses después, el mismo gobierno aprobó la compra de quince Boeing 707 para su flota estatal...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En el verano de 1986, el avión más grande del mundo se encontraba en una plataforma en Lakehurst, Nueva Jersey, a un kilómetro y medio del lugar donde se había incendiado el Hindenburg. Medía 105 metros de largo. Era un dirigible de la Armada con cuatro helicópteros atornillados debajo. El 1 de julio despegó...
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