Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la tarde del 3 de junio de 1973, una multitud inmensa se congregó en los alrededores del aeródromo de Le Bourget, al norte de París, con los rostros vueltos para presenciar la estrella del espectáculo aéreo: el avión supersónico soviético Tupolev Tu-144. Su piloto, Mikhail Kozlov, según se informa...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la mañana del 28 de junio de 1939, veintidós personas extraordinariamente afortunadas caminaron por un muelle en Port Washington, en Long Island, y subieron a bordo de lo que parecía un transatlántico con alas. El capitán Rod Sullivan puso en marcha los cuatro grandes motores, y el Boeing 314 que volaba...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just before dawn on 17 April 1944, and a sleek, triple-tailed airliner is rolling down the runway at Lockheed’s Burbank field. In the left seat, hands on the controls, sits one of the most famous men in America: Howard Hughes — aviator, tycoon, and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
From this December, a British holidaymaker will be able to board a Boeing 787 at London Gatwick and step off it on a beach in southern Thailand — no change of plane, no Gulf stopover. Norse Atlantic Airways has announced a new nonstop service between Gatwick and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
United Airlines just turned a Boeing 787-10 into a flying flag. On 15 June 2026, the carrier rolled out a bold “Stars and Stripes” special livery — a deep blue fuselage, fifty white stars, and diagonal red-and-white stripes sweeping across the tail...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For the first time ever, you can fly from Alaska to New England without stopping. On 13 June 2026, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 lifted off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International and pointed its nose almost due east, bound for Boston — roughly eight hours and...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On 26 June, an EVA Air Boeing 787 will lift off from Taipei, point its nose east, and not come down until it reaches Washington Dulles. It sounds routine. It is, in fact, a first: there has never been a nonstop flight between Taiwan and the capital of the United...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Desde que se tiene memoria, viajar de Montreal a Dakar implicaba volar primero en la dirección equivocada. Hacia el noreste, a París o Bruselas, una escala, y luego de regreso al sur, a Senegal: un viaje de doce horas o más para llegar a una ciudad que se encuentra casi directamente al este, al otro lado del...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On the morning of 2 June, a pale green, primer-coated jet lifted off from Toulouse and climbed past 41,000 feet over the south of France. It carried no passengers, only test instrumentation and a hand-picked Airbus crew. It also carried a title: the longest-range...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just after two in the morning over the mid-Atlantic, and the cockpit of an Airbus A330 has gone quiet in the worst possible way. No engine hum. No thrust. Just the thin whistle of air over an airframe weighing more than 180 tonnes, sinking toward a black ocean...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
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