Share this story On the afternoon of Friday, 26 October 2001, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Edward “Pete” Aldridge, stepped up to a podium in Washington. Three thousand kilometres away, Boeing chairman Phil Condit and his Joint Strike Fighter boss, Frank Statkus,...
Share this story It was a Friday afternoon at the Pentagon, 29 February 2008 — a leap day, fittingly, for a decision almost nobody saw coming. Air Force officials stepped before the press to name the winner of the KC-X tanker programme, 179 aircraft and roughly 35...
Share this story The desert air was still cool at Edwards Air Force Base on the morning of 27 August 1990 when Northrop chief test pilot Paul Metz taxied out in a machine that looked like nothing else on Earth. Charcoal grey, diamond-winged, its two tails canted...
Share this story On the morning of 25 January 1995, on the island of Andøya in Arctic Norway, a team of Norwegian and American scientists watched a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket climb away from its launcher and curve north-east over the sea towards...
Share this story Fifteen minutes past midnight, 26 September 1983. In a command bunker called Serpukhov-15, south-west of Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov is settled into the commander’s chair for a night shift he was not originally scheduled to work. In...
Share this story By the late afternoon of Saturday, 27 October 1962, the men of Soviet submarine B-59 had very little left to breathe. The boat had been at sea for almost four weeks, hiding from the US Navy in the warm water north of Cuba, and her batteries were...
Para empezar: ¿Qué es la barrera del sonido? La “barrera del sonido” se refiere al punto en el que un objeto viaja a la velocidad del sonido, también conocida como Mach 1. El sonido se propaga como ondas de presión a través de un medio como el aire, y su velocidad depende de factores como la temperatura y...
El F-104 Starfighter, conocido como el "misil tripulado", es ya uno de los aviones más emblemáticos jamás construidos. Con su velocidad supersónica, sus alas ultradelgadas y su perfil futurista, el F-104 parecía sacado directamente de la ciencia ficción...
El hombre más afortunado del mundo Imagínese esto: es 1918, los cielos de Europa son un ballet caótico de biplanos que giran sin cesar, y nuestro protagonista, el capitán John H. Hedley, está sentado en la parte trasera de un Bristol F.2B, un caza biplaza, con su piloto, el capitán Reginald...
El vuelo del HOBO 28: Una catástrofe acogedora. Imaginen, si lo desean, un B-52G Stratofortress, un titán de los cielos, sobrevolando la gélida extensión de Groenlandia. Es 1968, y este no es un vuelo cualquiera; el HOBO 28 transporta cuatro bombas de hidrógeno Mark 28 F1, cada una de ellas...
Margaret Horton was a Leading Aircraftwoman in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during World War II. She was stationed at RAF Hibaldstow, a satellite of Kirton Lindsey in Lincolnshire. Horton worked as a flight mechanic, and her duties included sitting on...
All of them from the tiny French speaking part of Switzerland! Yves Rossy [ted id=1271] Claude Nicollier Bertrand Piccard (Balloon – Solar Impulse) [ted id=723] Vibrant Aviation industry: Swiss Space Systems Share this story Related QuestionsWho are...
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