Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is the evening of 27 October 1962, and inside Soviet submarine B-59, somewhere north of Cuba, the temperature has passed 45 degrees Celsius and the air is running out. The batteries are almost dead. Men are fainting at their stations. For hours, American depth...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 28 July 1944, P-51 pilots of the 359th Fighter Group were escorting B-17s away from Merseburg when someone called out contrails high at six o’clock. Two stubby, tailless shapes came slicing down through the formation faster than anything the Americans had...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A few minutes past midnight on 24 January 1961, a Mark 39 hydrogen bomb drifted down through the winter darkness over Wayne County, North Carolina, swinging beneath a 30-metre (100-foot) parachute. It settled nose-first into a field near the hamlet of Faro and came to...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
In the red dirt of Alice Springs, in the middle of the Australian outback, a Boeing 787-9 sat parked for the better part of a year — not broken, not retired, just waiting for engines. On June 28 it finally flew home to Auckland, and with it, Air New Zealand quietly...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For a quarter of a century, GOL has been Brazil’s definitive short-haul airline: a vast orange-tailed fleet of Boeing 737s hopping between São Paulo, Rio and every corner of South America. On July 8, that identity changes. A GOL flight number will push back from Rio...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Frente a la costa sur de Inglaterra, un pequeño ala volante negra se despegó de una catapulta fijada a la cubierta de un buque de la Marina Real en movimiento, ascendió con un turborreactor que emitía un zumbido y voló por sí sola hacia su objetivo. Sin piloto, sin posibilidad de recuperación, sin segundas oportunidades: el Nyan está diseñado para volar...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under — and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to become the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Among the tall ships and grey hulls that filled New York Harbor for America’s 250th birthday, the strangest silhouette wasn’t a ship at all. Lashed to the flight deck of USS Nimitz, between rows of Super Hornets, sat a windowless grey machine with folded wings and no...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
Aviación militar, Noticias
El termómetro marcaba más de 100 grados Fahrenheit, la multitud en el National Mall llevaba sofocada desde la mañana, y en algún lugar por encima de la bruma, cuatro F-5 Tiger se colocaban en formación. Uno de ellos era pilotado por el propio administrador de la NASA. Eran las 13:14 del...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En el otoño de 1932, un pequeño avión de fuselaje ancho, pintado de rojo y blanco, se encontraba en un aeródromo de Cleveland, con un aspecto más caricaturesco que propio de una aeronave. Era casi todo motor: una enorme nariz radial atornillada a un fuselaje rechoncho, con la cabina tan retraída...
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