Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On the morning of 8 May 2026, a Garuda Indonesia A330-900neo — registration PK-GHI — lifted out of Jeddah on flight GA4208 to Medan, Indonesia, carrying Hajj pilgrims home. The routing crosses the Arabian Sea and southern India before dropping southeast...
Aviación militar, Noticias
In the 1960s, American spy satellites scanning the Caspian Sea brought back pictures of something that should not have existed: a 92-metre, jet-powered hybrid of ship and aircraft, skimming the water at 500 km/h. The CIA called it the Caspian Sea Monster. The Soviets...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is the most consequential helicopter design in American military history. Before the Cobra, every armed helicopter in the world was a transport airframe with weapons bolted onto it — a Huey with door guns, a Mi-4 with rocket pods, a Wessex with...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Qatar Airways finished its 2025/26 financial year with a net profit of US$1.94 billion. It is the highest annual profit in the airline’s history. The carrier moved 41.8 million passengers, 1.43 million tons of cargo, and a 12% share of the entire global air...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
When two aircraft collide in mid-air — as happened recently with an EA-18G Growler at Mountain Home Air Force Base — the debris field can stretch for miles. Pieces of aluminum, wiring, and avionics scatter across terrain in patterns that look random to the untrained...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable year. Not one of...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
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