Aviación militar, Noticias
The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed Iranian one-way attack...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April 1980. On...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in the Royal...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The A Shau valley, 10 March 1966. A Special Forces camp is being overrun by two thousand North Vietnamese regulars. The hills either side rise fifteen hundred feet and the cloud base is at eight hundred, which means any aircraft coming to help has to fly below the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer from Tennessee...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation “firsts” the way other...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion did something so...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante años, la Fuerza Aérea India podía detectar al enemigo mucho antes de poder atacarlo. Los cazas y aviones de radar chinos transportan misiles con un alcance superior a los 200 kilómetros; la flota india de Su-30MKI, su armamento más potente, no tenía nada que pudiera igualarlos. Esa brecha es...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
La tarde del 24 de noviembre de 1971, un hombre tranquilo vestido con traje se acercó al mostrador de Northwest Orient en Portland, Oregón, y pagó en efectivo un billete de ida a Seattle. Se identificó como Dan Cooper. Unas horas más tarde saldría de la parte trasera de un...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En los Juegos Olímpicos de Berlín de 1936, un adolescente escocés tuvo la oportunidad de volar con un as de la aviación de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al aterrizar, el alemán le dijo dos cosas al chico: que aprendiera a volar y que aprendiera alemán. El chico hizo ambas cosas y, con el tiempo, llegó a pilotar más aviones diferentes que ningún otro ser humano.
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
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