Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the morning of 20 April 1933, in the Tanezrouft, Bill Lancaster took out a fuel card and wrote what he knew would be his last message. He had been down in the Sahara for eight days. He had no water left. Exactly one year earlier, to the day, a man called Haden...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Star Alliance has 25-odd member airlines and access to more than a thousand airport lounges around the world. It owns six of them. Six, in twenty-nine years: Los Angeles, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Buenos Aires Ezeiza, Rio de Janeiro Galeão,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
At 15:55 this afternoon, a Boeing 787-9 in a deep indigo livery touched down at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, and an hour and a half later it went back the way it came. Flight RX0873 from Riyadh, inbound. RX0874 to Riyadh, outbound. Every day from now on. Riyadh...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
In November 2024, the United States sent two B-52H bombers to fly over the Bahrain International Airshow. One of them then parked on the static display, the first time a B-52 had done so at Sakhir. Nobody pretended it was a routine appearance. It was a message to...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
In 1975, Switzerland moved a Convair 990 Coronado from Zurich to Lucerne. It took barges, closed roads and a considerable amount of nerve, and the whole country watched. Half a century later, they are seriously proposing to do it again — with something twice the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Donald Trump does not usually take an interest in the business jet market. On Monday he did, in capital letters, on his own social network, and by Tuesday afternoon Bombardier’s share price had taken a seven per cent hit and a Republican senator from Kansas was...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At 23:34:49 on the night of 1 July 2002, the collision avoidance system aboard a Tupolev Tu-154M over southern Germany told its crew to climb. Seconds later the air traffic controller told them to descend. They descended. On the Boeing 757 converging with them, the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At about twenty to two on the morning of 28 November 1979, someone in Air New Zealand’s navigation section changed two numbers in a computer. The McMurdo waypoint stored in the ground system moved roughly two degrees and fifteen minutes of longitude to the east....
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
There is an airline that flies the Atlantic with no economy cabin at all. No premium economy either. Seventy-six seats, all of them business, all of them lying flat. La Compagnie has been doing this since 2014, mostly out of Paris, and on Monday it announced where it...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
A Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashed and burned on a runway at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego on Monday evening. Two people on board were killed. San Diego police logged the crash at about 17:20 local time on 7 September. It was the Labor Day holiday, and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Buried in Airbus’s monthly order tally, published Monday, is a line for eight A350F freighters. The deal was firmed on 31 August. The customer is not named. It takes firm orders for the aircraft to 115, and it lands about two weeks before the A350F is due to fly...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On Sunday afternoon a Boeing 767 freighter came off the end of runway 30 at Miami International, crossed the ground beyond it, struck vehicles and burned. Five people on the ground were killed. Both pilots survived with injuries. Within a day the question had narrowed...
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