Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Share this story Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers,...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Share this story A fighter pilot pulling 7G in a turning engagement has roughly three seconds to acquire a target, compute a firing solution, and press the trigger. Looking down at cockpit instruments during those three seconds means looking away from the threat — and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Share this story China has grounded all general aviation nationwide — private light aircraft, business jets, flight schools, parachute clubs, and glider operations — after a small single-engine plane crashed into the CITIC Tower in central Beijing on...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
NASA’s X-59 QueSST aircraft, the direct descendant of the SSBD programme, broke the sound barrier for the first time in June 2026 — designed to produce a gentle thump instead of a thunderclap. (NASA) If you have ever seen a photo of the Shaped Sonic Boom...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Hoy hace cincuenta años, el 1 de julio de 1976, el Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio del Smithsonian abrió sus puertas en el National Mall de Washington, D.C. Fue un regalo del bicentenario a una nación que acababa de llevar hombres a la Luna, ganar una carrera espacial y construir una...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
El 10 de marzo de 2026, más de 400 clientes, socios y ejecutivos de la aviación se reunieron en una nueva nave de producción en Bordeaux-Mérignac, donde Dassault Aviation presentó el Falcon 10X, el avión de negocios más grande, con mayor alcance y tecnológicamente más avanzado...
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