Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story The gates opened at Farnborough this morning. For the next five days a stretch of Hampshire tarmac becomes the place where the aerospace industry finds out what everyone else has been building, and where roughly a hundred thousand people stand in a...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Share this story From the air it looks like a filing system for aeroplanes. Row upon row of them, wingtip to wingtip, laid out across ten square kilometres of Arizona desert in lines so straight they look drawn. Bombers here. Fighters there. Transports over there....
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
Share this story A reporter at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday evening asked President Trump a direct question: the Qatari jet he is now flying as Air Force One does not have antimissile defences, so why is he flying it? The answer confirmed what aviation and security...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. Pregúntale a cualquiera qué avión de pasajeros rompió primero la barrera del sonido y te dirán que el Concorde. Se equivocarán por siete años, y por un avión Douglas de aspecto muy común que la mayoría de la gente ha olvidado por completo. El 21 de agosto de 1961, un Douglas estándar...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. La tarde del 24 de noviembre de 1971, un hombre tranquilo vestido con un traje de negocios se acercó al mostrador de Northwest Orient en Portland, Oregón, y pagó en efectivo un billete de ida a Seattle. Se identificó como Dan Cooper. Unas horas más tarde saldría de...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story It was a calm, clear night over the Indian Ocean on 24 June 1982 when the passengers of British Airways Flight 9 noticed something strange: a glow along the wings, and puffs of smoke curling into the cabin that smelled of sulphur. Up front, the crew...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Most airlines paint their jets. Taiwan’s STARLUX hired one of the world’s most famous artists to turn an Airbus A350-1000 into a mirror-finished flying sculpture — and on 15 July, it flew the thing across the Pacific to Phoenix.Flight JX026...
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