Aviación militar, Noticias
Two-star generals do not usually gang up on Congress. This spring, twenty-two of them did. In a single letter to the House and Senate appropriators, every adjutant general who commands an Air National Guard fighter unit signed the same blunt verdict: the United States...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere over Poltava Oblast, in the dark hours before dawn on 27 June, a Ukrainian MiG-29 simply went quiet. One moment the fighter was flying a combat mission; the next, contact was gone. The jet did not come home. This is the part of the war that does not trend....
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
En la mañana del primer día de junio, un avión de Air Canada retrocedió desde Montreal y apuntó su morro hacia Nantes, una pulcra ciudad francesa a orillas del Loira a la que ninguna aerolínea canadiense había ofrecido vuelos sin escalas. Dos días después, un avión de fuselaje ancho despegó de Toronto con destino a Shanghái para...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Si uno recorre la línea de exposición estática de ILA Berlín, espera la coreografía habitual alrededor de un helicóptero: un piloto abrochándose el cinturón, un jefe de tripulación haciendo señales, el lento zumbido de un motor Arriel acelerando. Este junio, Airbus aparcó algo más extraño bajo el sol de Brandeburgo. El...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Es sábado por la mañana sobre el Mar del Este, y en la pantalla de un radar coreano aparecen los puntos temprano: un grupo de ellos, más de diez aeronaves militares, chinas y rusas, moviéndose en secuencia hacia el límite de la vigilancia del país. Dentro de un centro de operaciones aéreas...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
A small white jet with a chequered flag down its flank taxied to a stop outside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on a bright Saturday in June, and a 9-year-old’s dream from 1962 finally landed. The pilot who climbed down was Ed Noel. The aircraft was...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The most expensive fighter program in history just handed the U.S. Marine Corps six brand-new stealth jets that cannot see. In place of their radar, each F-35B carries a chunk of dead weight bolted into the nose to keep the jet balanced. The Marines accepted them...
Aviación militar, Noticias
At the Irkutsk Aviation Plant on 25 June 2026, a two-seat jet that has spent two decades teaching student pilots how to fly lifted off on a roughly 50-minute sortie, climbed no higher than 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft) and held its speed below 600 km/h (around 370...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On a Friday afternoon in Shanghai, executives from China Eastern Airlines and Airbus signed their names to a document that quietly reshapes the balance of power in the world’s most fought-over aviation market. The deal: 25 brand-new Airbus A330-900neo widebodies, with...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
There are ugly aeroplanes, and then there is the Transavia Airtruk. It looks like a garden shed, a greenhouse and a barn door got into an argument and were forced to fly home together. It is so otherworldly that the filmmakers behind Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome cast it...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For roughly sixteen hours on 23 June 2026, two of the largest combat aircraft ever built carved a long arc through the cold airspace of the European Arctic. Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers — the variable-sweep giants NATO calls “Blackjack”...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is 4:30 in the morning, Eastern time, and the M/T Kiku is doing what tankers have done through the Strait of Hormuz for a century — threading the world’s most important oil chokepoint with more than two million barrels of crude in her belly. Then a...
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