Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 21 de marzo de 1999, dos hombres exhaustos hicieron descender un imponente globo plateado sobre el desierto egipcio y entraron en los libros de historia. Bertrand Piccard y Brian Jones acababan de lograr lo que los pioneros habían intentado sin éxito durante décadas: dar la vuelta al mundo en avión...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Sin motor. Sin combustible para aviones. Sin cohete. Solo un esbelto planeador blanco, cuyas largas alas se alimentaban de invisibles corrientes de aire ascendente, ascendiendo más alto que un avión espía U-2 hacia la gélida oscuridad de la estratosfera. En 2018, el planeador sin motor Perlan 2 alcanzó los 76.124 pies...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply what “an...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily swapping the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the morning of 25 October 1999, a small charter jet lifted off from Orlando bound for Dallas. It was an ordinary hop for six ordinary reasons, a golfer, his agents, a course designer, and two pilots, all with places to be. Within minutes, something went quietly and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to confirm what much of...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Aer Lingus began 2026 promising its largest-ever transatlantic schedule. It will end the year having quietly dismantled five of its US routes, a retreat that says as much about the economics of the North Atlantic as it does about one Irish carrier. The reset spans...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Alaska Airlines has spent barely sixteen months turning itself from a West Coast workhorse into a transatlantic contender, and it is not slowing down. On 20 August 2026 the Seattle carrier confirmed two new European destinations: Paris and Athens, both launching...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Every modern aircraft carrier shares one strange feature: the landing runway is skewed off to one side, pointing away from the ship’s centreline. It looks like an afterthought. It is actually one of the most important safety inventions in aviation history...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
The passengers on BOAC Flight 911 were promised a treat: a close-up view of Mount Fuji, gleaming under a brilliant blue sky. Minutes later, the sky that looked so calm tore their Boeing 707 apart. The disaster of 5 March 1966 is one of aviation’s starkest...
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