Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Line the Tupolev Tu-128 up next to the bombers it was built to shoot down, and you might struggle to tell the hunter from the prey. At nearly 30 metres long and around 43 tonnes, this Soviet interceptor was bigger and heavier than many of the aircraft it was meant to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway. The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation’s strangest...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The men on the beach at Hammam al-Shatt heard the sea before they heard the sky. It was a clear Tuesday morning, just after ten, the first of October 1985, and the Tunisian coast south of Tunis was doing what it always did at that hour, fishermen, a few children, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, the sirens came before the prayers were finished. It was 6 October 1973, and along the Suez Canal and across the Golan Heights, Egyptian and Syrian armies were pouring over Israel’s lines....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 it, roaring and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The comparison arrives within about ninety seconds of any conversation about defence budgets. Europe is rearming, China is building warships at a pace nobody can match, and somebody says it: this is how it felt before 1914. Sometimes they reach for the other analogy...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the summer of 1991, the Royal Air Force flew supersonic Tornados, was preparing for the Eurofighter, and had just watched stealth aircraft debut over Iraq. And the aircraft it relied on to spot incoming threats and guard the northern approaches to Britain was a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 aircraft at a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 something no other...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
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 walked out on 20 March...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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, pointing at the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
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 Battles went. One...
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