Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The PZL M-15 Belphegor is the only jet-powered biplane ever put into series...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story The Junkers G.38 had a wing two metres thick at the root. Junkers, being Junkers, looked at that volume and decided it was a waste to fill it with nothing but structure. So they put passengers in it. On the second aircraft, six people sat inside the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story The Pacific is the largest single feature on the planet. In 1928 nobody had flown across it, and the reason was arithmetic: the distances between usable landfalls were longer than any aircraft could reliably manage, and if you missed the island you...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Comparte esta historia. Cuando Amy Johnson despegó de Croydon el 5 de mayo de 1930 con destino a Australia, llevaba diez meses con su licencia de piloto y nunca había volado más allá del trayecto de Londres a Hull. Su avión era un de Havilland Gipsy Moth de segunda mano con cabina abierta...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story In 1926 an oilfield roughneck in Oklahoma took a metal splinter in his left eye and lost it. Seven years later, the same man flew around the world on his own in under eight days, and then went looking for the edge of the atmosphere. Wiley Post had one...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Share this story On 21 October 1929, a flying boat took off from Lake Constance with 169 people aboard. No aircraft had ever carried close to that many. The record would stand for about twenty years. The Dornier Do X had twelve engines mounted above its wing in six...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Comparte esta historia. El 4 de septiembre de 2026, un Airbus A330-200 de Air China tiene previsto despegar de Pekín, hacer escala durante tres horas en Bucarest y continuar su viaje a Zagreb. Tras su aterrizaje, Croacia contará por primera vez con una conexión aérea regular durante todo el año con China continental.
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Two years ago Riyadh Air was a logo and a promise. This week it flew its first passengers to Bangkok — the newest thread in a network that Saudi Arabia intends to stretch across the planet.On September 2, the kingdom’s from-scratch flag...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Some stories are too strange to stay in the news cycle. On Friday, the strangest aviation story of the summer becomes a Netflix documentary. The streamer has fast-tracked a film about the afternoon in July when the President of the United States...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Share this story Volodymyr Zelensky spent the first day of September addressing an audience that is not usually on a wartime president’s list: airline schedulers, flight-planning departments and, pointedly, the underwriters who insure them. In a video address on...
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