Aviación militar, Noticias
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Aviación militar, Noticias
La aeronave que más preocupa a los comandantes de bases aéreas estadounidenses en 2026 no es un caza furtivo chino ni un bombardero ruso. Es un cuadricóptero eléctrico que cuesta menos que una computadora portátil usada, y no hay nada que impida que uno hostil sobrevuele el perímetro de una base...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in 1962. The newest...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Fréjus, on the Côte d’Azur, 23 September 1913, 5:47 in the morning. The sea is still grey, the air smells of salt and the burnt castor oil that every rotary engine of the era coughs over its pilot. A small, dark-eyed man settles into a Morane-Saulnier G — a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Puerta 15 del Aeropuerto Internacional John F. Kennedy, pocos minutos después de la medianoche del último día de agosto de 1983. Un Boeing 747 permanece bajo los reflectores, con las puertas abiertas, mientras 246 pasajeros suben a bordo: hombres de negocios con destino a Taipéi y Hong Kong, recién casados, abuelos...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from Moscow toward a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La mañana del 5 de mayo de 1935 olía a polvo, hierba primaveral y aceite de motor. En un nuevo aeródromo a las afueras de Ankara, la joven República Turca inauguraba una escuela de vuelo con la ceremonia que tanto le gustaba: planeadores surcando el cielo de Anatolia, paracaidistas extranjeros...
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