Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, residents of the Los Angeles suburbs looked up to a strange and frankly alarming sight: two jet fighters chasing a lone, pilotless aircraft in tightening circles, hurling rockets at it — and missing, again and again, while the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a secret airfield in the Nevada desert in the early 1980s, a test pilot lined up one of the ugliest aircraft ever built and pushed the throttles forward. It looked less like a jet than a flying shipping container — deep-bodied, boxy, with a curved back and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture an aircraft that does not sit on a runway but stands upright on its tail, nose pointed at the sky like a rocket. Around its waist spins a three-bladed wing, driven not by an engine in the fuselage but by ramjets screaming at the very tips of the blades. To...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
From the moment humans first left the ground, a certain kind of pilot has asked a dangerous question: what happens if I try this? The answers fill the wildest chapter of aviation history — a century of loops, rolls, dives and impossible threading of gaps, flown by men...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En algún lugar del centro de Francia a finales de la década de 1950, el piloto de pruebas André Turcat lleva un extraño avión de ala delta a una velocidad en la que un motor a reacción normal empieza a jadear. Y es entonces cuando el Nord Griffon cobra vida. Detrás de él, un estatorreactor del tamaño de un pequeño...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This July at Oshkosh,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The AGM-86B was designed when the Soviet Union still existed, gas cost about a dollar a gallon, and the B-52 crews loading it were younger than the bomber. More than four decades later, the United States has decided it cannot let the missile retire just yet. In 2026,...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the largest low-cost...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Two companies. One contract. Decades of consequences. Sometime around August 2026, the US Navy is expected to decide who will build the F/A-XX — its sixth-generation carrier fighter and one of the most important American aircraft programmes of the century. The choice...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Cada mes de julio, un rincón tranquilo de Gloucestershire se convierte en el aeródromo militar más concurrido del mundo. Aviones de combate, bombarderos y equipos acrobáticos de decenas de naciones llenan la pista de la base aérea de RAF Fairford para el Royal International Air Tattoo, el mayor espectáculo aéreo militar del mundo.
Aviación militar, Noticias
For twenty years, the Western answer to Chinese air power was simple: our jets are better. The F-22 and F-35 out-sense, out-stealth and out-network anything Beijing could field. That may still be true of any single aircraft. It may also be about to stop mattering....
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante décadas, una regla ha permanecido silenciosamente en el centro del poder aéreo occidental: un ser humano decide cuándo un arma mata. El 30 de junio de 2026, Gran Bretaña se alejó de ella. Oculto en un ambicioso Plan de Inversión en Defensa —más de 5 mil millones de libras esterlinas para drones, el mayor de su tipo...
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