Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are still waiting,...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante meses, el programa de cazas más ambicioso de Europa tuvo un gran obstáculo: la financiación. El 3 de julio de 2026, ese obstáculo se solucionó. El Reino Unido, Italia y Japón firmaron un contrato de 4.600 millones de libras esterlinas (1.544.560 millones de dólares) para impulsar su avión de combate de sexta generación...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It is 107 degrees on the range tower at Gila Bend, and a photographer is shielding his camera in the shade between passes so it will not overheat. Then the sound arrives — that unmistakable, chest-rattling BRRRT — and an A-10C Thunderbolt II drops out of the Arizona...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward the vertical until...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in half, tore the...
Dentro de MiGFlug, Noticias
En algún lugar de la costa de Florida, a más de mil millas por hora, un hombre con casco de oxígeno desenvolvió un cheesesteak, le dio un mordisco y puso una cara que no se suele ver fuera de una montaña rusa. Al parecer, eso es lo que se necesita ahora para vender un sándwich...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 7 August 1942, over an island the Americans had invaded that very morning, a .30-calibre bullet passed through Saburō Sakai’s skull. It blinded his right eye and paralysed his left side. He was 560 nautical miles from home, alone, at war, in a fighter with no...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four rebuilt engines ran sweetly. Half a century of Arctic exile was about to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Sábado por la mañana, 28 de julio de 1945. Nueva York está envuelta en una niebla tan espesa que el tercio superior del Empire State Building simplemente ha desaparecido. A las 9:40 de la mañana, los oficinistas del piso 79 oyen un sonido que ningún oficinista debería oír jamás: motores de avión, cerca, acercándose...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 16 August 1966, an Iraqi Air Force captain named Munir Redfa strapped into his MiG-21F-13 for what his squadron believed was a routine long-range training sortie. He had full fuel tanks — a privilege he had rarely been granted — and a...
Comentarios recientes