Share this story Glue two P-51 Mustangs together along the wing. Share a tailplane between them. Put the radio operator’s seat in the right fuselage. Tell the pilot in the left fuselage to fly the aircraft. The result is the F-82 Twin Mustang — the longest-range...
Estuvo despierto durante 23 horas antes incluso de despegar. Charles Lindbergh pasó la noche del 19 de mayo de 1927 en un hotel cerca de Roosevelt Field, en Long Island, sin poder dormir, mientras la lluvia azotaba el aeródromo y los informes meteorológicos del Atlántico eran, en el mejor de los casos, ambiguos. En...
Todos los pilotos militares que vuelan hoy en día se sientan en un dispositivo que puede expulsarlos de una aeronave averiada en una fracción de segundo. Desde el momento en que se acciona la palanca hasta el despliegue completo del paracaídas transcurren menos de dos segundos. El asiento impulsa a su ocupante a una fuerza de hasta 20 g y una velocidad de 965 km/h (600 mph)...
Share this story Of all the strange aircraft the United States built during the Second World War — and there were many — none was stranger, on paper or in person, than the Northrop XP-79. The XP-79 has gone down in history as a manned missile. Its mission, so the...
Share this story The standard British Quick Reaction Alert intercept, in the Cold War era, went something like this. NATO radar would call out an unidentified contact entering the United Kingdom Air Defence Region. Two RAF Phantom FGR.2s, held at ten minutes’...
Louis Blériot was flying on a badly burned foot. His monoplane — a fragile structure of spruce, ash, and rubberised canvas — had a 25-horsepower engine that overheated on long runs. He had no compass. No radio. No life jacket. As he climbed to 250 feet over the...
In 1924, flying around the world meant crossing the Pacific Ocean in open biplanes, with engines that had to be rebuilt every few thousand miles, relying on supply ships pre-positioned across the widest ocean on Earth by a US Navy that had deployed its vessels months...
They were bicycle mechanics. No formal engineering degrees, no government funding, no team of PhDs. Just Wilbur and Orville Wright, a shed in Dayton, Ohio, and an obsession that bordered on madness. By the time they arrived at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in...
The US Army Air Forces didn’t want them. The military establishment was convinced, and had “proved” through pseudo-scientific studies, that Black men lacked the intelligence, the nerve, and the coordination to fly combat aircraft. When political...
Durante 34 días consecutivos, celebramos a los mejores ases de la aviación de combate de la historia: desde Adolphe Pégoud, el francés que inventó el combate aéreo, hasta MM Alam, el as pakistaní que derribó cinco aviones en menos de un minuto. Si te perdiste alguna de esas publicaciones, aún puedes encontrarlas...
On 18 April 1942, four months after Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet — something that had never been done before and would never be attempted again — and flew 1,000 miles to bomb Tokyo. The military damage they...
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