Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Twelve minutes after leaving Tokyo on the evening of 12 August 1985, the rear pressure bulkhead of a Boeing 747 gave way. The escaping air blew off most of the vertical stabiliser and severed all four hydraulic systems. The crew were left with an...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Two minutes and thirty-three seconds passed between the moment an Airbus A310 stopped doing what its crew believed it was doing, and the moment it hit a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau. Seventy-five people died. The story is usually told as a simple...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1933 Boeing built the aeroplane that made every other airliner in the world obsolete overnight. All-metal, cantilever low wing, retractable undercarriage, autopilot, de-icing boots, a heated and insulated cabin, and 189 miles an hour in cruise. It...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story An Airbus A330 of that weight should touch down at about 135 knots. On 13 April 2010, Cathay Pacific 780 arrived at Hong Kong at 231 knots — with both thrust levers at idle, one engine stuck at seventy percent power, the other stuck below idle,...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Everybody who knows anything about the Antonov An-2 knows the same thing about it: that the flight manual has no stall speed, and that if the engine quits you simply hold the stick back and the aeroplane parachutes gently to earth at 40 km/h. It is a...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story On 2 June this year, SAS flight SK969 lifted out of Copenhagen bound for Mumbai, ending a seventeen-year absence from India. Four hours later, somewhere over Azerbaijan, it turned around and flew home. The aircraft had departed without final clearance...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story United spent a fortnight teasing this announcement with a reality-TV-style video full of coded clues, which the internet duly spent a fortnight decoding. On Tuesday morning, in a hangar at Newark, the airline finally said it out loud. Ten new...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story At half past four on the morning of 16 October 1936, standing beside a single-engined monoplane at RAAF Richmond outside Sydney, a 27-year-old New Zealander gave the assembled press a clear instruction. If she went down in the Tasman Sea, nobody was...
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