Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 13 October 1954, a Royal Navy pilot named Lieutenant B.D. Macfarlane was catapulted off the carrier HMS Albion when his engine died. His aircraft flopped into the sea directly ahead of the ship, which then ran straight over it, slicing the fighter in two. Trapped...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft are beautiful. The Blackburn Beverley was not one of them. It looked like a shipping container that had grown four propellers and a pair of tails and decided to fly anyway — a slab-sided barn of an aeroplane with its wheels bolted down permanently...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Tens of thousands of Axis prisoners spent the Second World War behind Allied wire. Exactly one of them broke out, crossed an ocean, and made it all the way back to his own side to fly again. His name was Franz von Werra, and the film they made about him was called,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Head-on, the Fairey Gannet looked like something a committee had argued about and lost. A deep, humpbacked fuselage, a chin full of radar, and a nose crowded with eight spinning propeller blades stacked in two counter-rotating discs. It is one of the most...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
From the front it looked like the future: a big, twin-boom jet with a needle nose and no visible cockpit canopy where you would expect one. The de Havilland Sea Vixen was one of the most futuristic fighters the Royal Navy ever flew. It was also one of the deadliest...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the 1950s the U.S. Navy watched the Air Force build a fleet of long-range bombers to carry the nation’s nuclear deterrent — and decided it wanted in. Its answer was one of the strangest and most beautiful warplanes America ever built: a swept-wing jet...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On 24 July, a rule two decades in the making rewrote what counts as a light-sport aircraft in America — and, with it, what a beginner pilot is allowed to fly. MOSAIC, the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification, tears up the light-sport definition...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For four years a quiet turf war has run between the companies building 5G networks and the people who land airplanes. On 24 July, the FAA moved to end it. The agency is issuing a final rule requiring aircraft radio altimeters to shrug off interference from 5G signals...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En 1943, un ingeniero de 33 años prometió a las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos un avión de combate en 180 días. Alquiló una carpa de circo, la instaló junto a una fábrica de plásticos maloliente en Burbank, reunió a un grupo selecto de ingenieros y entregó el prototipo XP-80 en...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Derribó más aviones enemigos que cualquier otro caza aliado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y mató a un número espantoso de jóvenes enviados a pilotarlo, antes incluso de que conocieran a un alemán. El Sopwith Camel fue el mejor caza de combate aéreo de 1917 y una trampa mortal con...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was not fast. It was not pretty. It could not dogfight. And for thirty years, when the weather closed in and the target sat hidden under cloud and darkness that grounded everything else, the US Navy sent the Grumman A-6 Intruder. Subsonic, snub-nosed and...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Archer Aviation pasó años prometiendo transportarte a través de la ciudad en un taxi aéreo eléctrico ultrasilencioso. Esta semana, en Farnborough, presentó algo bastante diferente: un helicóptero de rotor basculante híbrido-eléctrico sin piloto, construido en colaboración con la empresa de tecnología de defensa Anduril, lo suficientemente grande como para...
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