Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up 52%. Backlog:...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There is a shipping container somewhere in the world right now that does not look like much. Steel box. Corner castings. Maybe a dent or two from a rough crossing. You have seen a million of them stacked at ports, rolling down highways on flatbeds, rusting in fields....
Aviación militar, Noticias
There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive — as if physics...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la tarde del 27 de mayo de 1919, un pesado hidroavión de cuatro motores descendió a través de la bruma del Atlántico y aterrizó en el estuario del Tajo, cerca de Lisboa, Portugal. Su casco estaba manchado de sal. Su tripulación de seis personas no había dormido bien en dos días. Y con eso...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Aterrizó en un campo de cultivo a las afueras de Londonderry, Irlanda del Norte, el 21 de mayo de 1932, y el granjero que corrió por el césped le preguntó si venía de lejos. “De América”, respondió ella. Había estado volando durante 14 horas y 56 minutos, en un...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La aeronave medía 6,07 metros de largo. Llevaba una ojiva de 1200 kilogramos en su morro. La cabina solo contaba con instrumentos rudimentarios: un indicador de velocidad, un altímetro, un indicador de actitud y los controles para encender tres motores cohete de combustible sólido. No había...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Bessie Coleman walked into every flying school in Chicago and was turned away from every one. The year was 1919. No American flight school would accept a student who was both Black and a woman. Most would not accept her for either reason alone. A lesser person would...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 27 September 1956, Captain Mel Apt of the US Air Force became the first human being to fly faster than three times the speed of sound. He was at 65,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, in California, dropped from beneath a Boeing B-50 Superfortress mothership,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The morning of 16 April 1912 was perfect — or so it seemed. Harriet Quimby stood at Folkestone, England, in her trademark plum-coloured flying suit, preparing to become the first woman to fly the English Channel. There was one problem. Fog had rolled in over the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
You know what a B-17 looks like. Four radial engines. The towering tail fin. Glass nose. Heavy-bomber Americana, stamped onto a thousand black-and-white photographs of the daylight raids over Germany. Now picture one with a fifth engine bolted to its nose — a giant...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Three were built. Three flew. One crashed. Two went into storage. None ever entered service. The Lockheed YF-12 is one of those aircraft that should have rewritten the book on continental air defence and instead became a footnote — overshadowed by the SR-71 Blackbird...
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