Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story For more than sixty years, the sound of an astronaut heading to work has been the shriek of a Northrop T-38 Talon. Now NASA is starting to think about what comes next. The agency’s Johnson Space Center has opened market research for a modern jet...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
A Ukrainian fiber-optic guided FPV drone. These wire-guided weapons are immune to electronic jamming and can strike targets over 20 kilometres away. (Wikimedia Commons) In February 2025, Ukraine became the first nation in history to establish a dedicated military...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Picture a small jet taking off with a perfectly ordinary straight wing. Then, in the air, the whole wing slowly pivots — not sweeping symmetrically back on both sides like a fighter, but rotating flat around its centre, until one tip points...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story When Burt Rutan rolled his latest creation out at Oshkosh in 1996, the reaction from a crowd that worshipped him was more or less: what went wrong? The Boomerang looked broken. There was a small engine boom stuck to the left of the fuselage. The right...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story It was meant to be an ordinary Saturday morning in southern Hungary. Instead, a light aircraft lifted off from the grass at Kalocsa with a man at the controls who had no business flying it, and pointed its nose toward the one place in the country...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In the mid-1930s, a French carpenter’s dream put aviation within reach of the ordinary man. Henri Mignet’s Flying Flea — the Pou-du-Ciel, or “Louse of the Sky” — was a tiny wooden aeroplane that anyone could build...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story A Czech startup that has spent the better part of a decade quietly flying odd-looking prototypes just showed its hand. On 27 August 2026, Prague-based Zuri unveiled its first commercial product: an uncrewed cargo tiltrotor built to lift a couple of...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Three days after United rolled out ten new international destinations, American Airlines answered on August 27 with a transatlantic land-grab of its own: seven new international routes for summer 2027, three of them to cities American has never...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 on final approach to Cologne/Bonn came uncomfortably close to a drone earlier this year. This week, the consequences arrived: Germany’s air-navigation authority has rewritten how the airport’s runways are used...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On 6 August 1969, a Soviet helicopter lifted 40,204.5 kilograms — just over 40 tonnes — to a height of 2,255 metres. That is roughly the weight of a loaded articulated lorry, carried straight up by rotors. No helicopter has lifted more, before or...
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