Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story For twenty years the Atlantic had been killing balloonists. Since 1958, five men had died trying to drift across it, and every attempt — more than a dozen of them — had ended in the sea. Then, in August 1978, three amateurs from Albuquerque climbed...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia Portugal ha vuelto a poner a la venta su aerolínea nacional, y el 29 de julio de 2026 dos de los tres megagrupos aéreos europeos mostraron sus cartas. Air France-KLM y Lufthansa Group presentaron ofertas vinculantes para adquirir una participación en TAP Air Portugal. El...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia El 30 de julio de 2026, el gobierno de la India comunicó al Parlamento algo que, más de un año después del desastre del vuelo 171 de Air India, solo dificulta aún más la resolución del misterio central: los interruptores de control de combustible del Boeing 787, los mismos componentes en el...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia El 6 de julio de 2026, el vuelo BA919 de British Airways procedente de Düsseldorf se encontraba en su aproximación inicial a la pista 27L del aeropuerto de Londres Heathrow cuando la aeronave, un Airbus A320-232 con matrícula G-EUUN, perdió una información en la que la mayoría de los pasajeros nunca piensan:...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Every so often an aeroplane arrives that is so obviously ahead of its moment that it embarrasses everything parked next to it. In October 1934, on a new airfield at Mildenhall in Suffolk, three of them lined up on the same morning. They were de...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1911, flying across the United States was widely considered impossible. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst put money on it anyway, offering $50,000 to the first pilot to cross the country by air in 30 days or less. The men best equipped...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In May 1930 a 26-year-old typist’s daughter from Hull climbed into a second-hand biplane she had named Jason, pointed it toward the far side of the planet, and set out to fly alone to Australia. Amy Johnson had held a pilot’s licence for...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On the evening of 4 October 1930, the largest flying object the world had ever built slipped its mooring mast at Cardington and turned south for India. The R101 was 777 feet long, more than seven storeys tall, and carried a government minister who had...
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