Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 14 de diciembre de 1986, un avión de aspecto extraño —largo, delgado, con dos fuselajes, un motor propulsor, un motor de tracción y alas tan flexibles que se doblaban visiblemente bajo su propio peso— rodó por una pista en la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Edwards en California y despegó. Era...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
A las 22:56, hora del este, del 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong colocó su bota izquierda sobre la superficie de la Luna y pronunció unas palabras que 600 millones de personas —una de cada cinco personas que viven en la Tierra— escucharon en directo. La señal tardó 1,26 segundos en viajar desde la superficie lunar...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
In 1965, Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe phoned Boeing president Bill Allen and asked whether Boeing could build an aircraft twice the size of anything currently flying. Allen said he would look into it. The two men then did something remarkable for...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On October 24, 2003, British Airways flight BA002 touched down at London Heathrow for the last time. As it taxied in, the crew made an announcement: this was Concorde’s final commercial flight. The passengers — who had each paid around £8,000 for a seat — stood...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At 7:25 PM on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg — 804 feet long, the largest aircraft ever built — caught fire while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. In 34 seconds, the largest flying object in history was a wreck on the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island — a two-mile-long coral strip in the central Pacific, 2,556 miles away. They were on the longest and most dangerous leg of an around-the-world flight....
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the evening of May 21, 1927, a single-engine monoplane appeared out of the darkness over Le Bourget airfield near Paris. The crowd waiting on the ground numbered 150,000 people — the largest gathering in French history to that point. When Charles Lindbergh stepped...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical Aerospace’s full-scale...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The price of Jet-A fuel in the United States averaged $8.63 per gallon in April 2026. That is $1.77 more than March. It is $2.03 more than a year ago. And it is more than double what it cost before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February. For anyone who...
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