Aviación militar, Noticias
El Pentágono quiere 500 drones en un solo enjambre. No es algo que vaya a suceder en el futuro. No es una teoría. En este momento, DARPA está solicitando propuestas para sistemas de drones autónomos en contenedores, capaces de lanzar, recuperar y coordinar constelaciones de hasta 500 aeronaves no tripuladas desde...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Muamar Gadafi trazó una línea en el Mediterráneo y desafió a la Armada de los Estados Unidos a cruzarla. La Armada la cruzó dos veces. En ambas ocasiones, los F-14 Tomcat respondieron. Los dos incidentes del Golfo de Sidra —1981 y 1989— son los únicos derribos aéreos estadounidenses de la década de 1980.
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere off the coast of Oman, in the dark, two U.S. Army aviators are treading water. Their AH-64 Apache is gone — minutes ago it was flying a patrol near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and now it is at the bottom of the Gulf. They are alive, but they are in...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On the first morning of June, an Air Canada jet pushed back at Montreal and pointed its nose at Nantes, a tidy French city on the Loire that no Canadian airline had ever served nonstop. Two days later, a widebody lifted off from Toronto bound for Shanghai for the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
A small white jet with a chequered flag down its flank taxied to a stop outside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on a bright Saturday in June, and a 9-year-old’s dream from 1962 finally landed. The pilot who climbed down was Ed Noel. The aircraft was...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On a Friday afternoon in Shanghai, executives from China Eastern Airlines and Airbus signed their names to a document that quietly reshapes the balance of power in the world’s most fought-over aviation market. The deal: 25 brand-new Airbus A330-900neo widebodies, with...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked an audacious question: what if a jet fighter did not need a runway, or even an aircraft carrier? What if it could simply take off from the open sea? Convair’s answer was one of the strangest warplanes ever flown — a delta-winged...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture the view from the cockpit. The sea is a grey blur a hundred feet below, ripping past at well over 500 knots. The horizon barely moves; the world is a tunnel of speed. Most aircraft, this low and this fast, would be a snarling, twitchy handful, fighting their...
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