France Caught a Rare Russian Spy Jet

France Caught a Rare Russian Spy Jet

Aviación militar, Noticias

Somewhere over the Baltic this summer, a French Rafale slid into formation beside a Russian jet that almost never lets itself be seen. The aircraft was a Tupolev Tu-214PU — a rare, specially-equipped command aircraft that open-source analysts link to Russia’s...
How Many Aircraft Are There in the World?

How Many Aircraft Are There in the World?

Mundo de la aviación

Ask most people to picture “the world’s aircraft” and they imagine airliners — rows of jets at a busy airport. Yet airliners are a tiny slice of the real total. Add up everything with wings and an engine, from a two-seat trainer at a grass strip to a...
Two Close Calls in Two Days at Munich

Two Close Calls in Two Days at Munich

Mundo de la aviación, Noticias

Munich Airport has had a nervous week. On the evening of 17 August 2026, a Lufthansa Airbus A380 arriving from San Francisco touched down short of its runway and ploughed through the approach lighting at the threshold. All 351 people on board were unhurt, and the...
The Friendly Jet Trainer That Went to War

The Friendly Jet Trainer That Went to War

Mundo de la aviación

Most fast jets seat their crew one behind the other, the passenger staring at the back of the pilot’s helmet. The BAC Jet Provost and its armed cousin, the BAC Strikemaster, do it differently. In these aircraft you sit shoulder to shoulder with the pilot, close...
The Spy Plane With One Black Wing

The Spy Plane With One Black Wing

Aviación militar

Here is a strange way to predict a North Korean missile test. Open a flight-tracking website, and watch for a single, ageing American jet to take off from Nebraska, cross the Pacific, and start flying long racetrack patterns over the Yellow Sea. When that aircraft...
An Old Mirage Learns a New Emirati Trick

An Old Mirage Learns a New Emirati Trick

Aviación militar

The Mirage 2000 first flew in 1978. The precision bomb now hanging under the United Arab Emirates’ version of it was designed in Abu Dhabi in the 2020s. That gap — a Cold War delta wing carrying a home-grown 21st-century weapon — is the whole story of a new...
1,000 More Horses for the Black Hawk

1,000 More Horses for the Black Hawk

Aviación militar, Noticias

It is not often that an aircraft gets fifty percent more power without getting any bigger. That is exactly what the U.S. Army is trying to bolt into thousands of its helicopters — and on 12 August 2026 the effort passed one of its hardest gates. GE Aerospace’s...