Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story The Pacific is the largest single feature on the planet. In 1928 nobody had flown across it, and the reason was arithmetic: the distances between usable landfalls were longer than any aircraft could reliably manage, and if you missed the island you...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. Cuando Amy Johnson despegó de Croydon el 5 de mayo de 1930 con destino a Australia, llevaba diez meses con su licencia de piloto y nunca había volado más allá del trayecto de Londres a Hull. Su avión era un de Havilland Gipsy Moth de segunda mano con cabina abierta...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1926 an oilfield roughneck in Oklahoma took a metal splinter in his left eye and lost it. Seven years later, the same man flew around the world on his own in under eight days, and then went looking for the edge of the atmosphere. Wiley Post had one...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story She would climb to around four thousand metres, roll the Stuka onto its back, and put it into a near-vertical dive to test the brakes and the sight she had helped design. Then she would do it again. On a good day, fifteen times. Melitta von...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On 21 October 1929, a flying boat took off from Lake Constance with 169 people aboard. No aircraft had ever carried close to that many. The record would stand for about twenty years. The Dornier Do X had twelve engines mounted above its wing in six...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Look at a Blohm & Voss BV 141 head-on and your brain files a complaint. The engine and the tail are on the left. The crew sit in a glass pod on the right. There is no fuselage in the middle, because there is no middle. It looks like two different...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story No aircraft has ever looked faster standing still. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was sixty-seven feet of needle, with a nose you could have used to open letters and wings so small they looked like an afterthought. Everything about it promised Mach 2. It...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia El 2 de junio de 1944, bombarderos B-17 de la Decimoquinta Fuerza Aérea bombardearon estaciones de clasificación ferroviaria en Hungría y luego continuaron hacia el este. Aterrizaron en Ucrania, en tres aeródromos soviéticos que el Ejército Rojo había entregado a los estadounidenses. Fue la primera vez en la guerra que un...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia La pista de aterrizaje de la RAF Lyneham la mañana del 22 de julio de 1966 albergaba uno de los aviones menos probables de Gran Bretaña: un interceptor Lightning sin cabina, con el asiento eyectable desactivado, el tren de aterrizaje inmovilizado y un hombre en la cabina que no llevaba puesto...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Comparte esta historia. El Boeing B-52 Stratofortress lleva setenta años en servicio y va camino de alcanzar los cien. Ha sobrevivido a la Unión Soviética, a la hélice y a la mayoría de los ingenieros que lo diseñaron. Y el diseño que hizo posible todo eso...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story The Short Stirling was the first of the RAF’s great four-engine heavy bombers — into service before the Halifax, before the Lancaster, the aircraft that opened Britain’s strategic bombing war. It was huge, handsome and, in the end,...
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