Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la tarde del 27 de mayo de 1919, un pesado hidroavión de cuatro motores descendió a través de la bruma del Atlántico y aterrizó en el estuario del Tajo, cerca de Lisboa, Portugal. Su casco estaba manchado de sal. Su tripulación de seis personas no había dormido bien en dos días. Y con eso...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La aeronave medía 6,07 metros de largo. Llevaba una ojiva de 1200 kilogramos en su morro. La cabina solo contaba con instrumentos rudimentarios: un indicador de velocidad, un altímetro, un indicador de actitud y los controles para encender tres motores cohete de combustible sólido. No había...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 27 September 1956, Captain Mel Apt of the US Air Force became the first human being to fly faster than three times the speed of sound. He was at 65,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, in California, dropped from beneath a Boeing B-50 Superfortress mothership,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
You know what a B-17 looks like. Four radial engines. The towering tail fin. Glass nose. Heavy-bomber Americana, stamped onto a thousand black-and-white photographs of the daylight raids over Germany. Now picture one with a fifth engine bolted to its nose — a giant...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Three were built. Three flew. One crashed. Two went into storage. None ever entered service. The Lockheed YF-12 is one of those aircraft that should have rewritten the book on continental air defence and instead became a footnote — overshadowed by the SR-71 Blackbird...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 10 January 1964, a B-52H Stratofortress flown by a Boeing test crew on a structural test flight near East Spanish Peak in southern Colorado when it flew into the worst clear-air turbulence anyone aboard had ever experienced. There was no warning, no cloud cover, no...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was the fastest fighter at low level in the Royal Air Force inventory, faster than the Spitfire below 15,000 feet. It carried four 20mm cannons in its nose — twice the firepower of any other British fighter. It first flew in October 1938 and entered service in...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The aircraft sits on its tail in the hangar. The pilot climbs a ladder, then climbs another, until he is sitting almost flat on his back, looking straight up at the hangar ceiling. He starts the twin-section Allison turboprop driving its 16-foot contra-rotating...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Glue two P-51 Mustangs together along the wing. Share a tailplane between them. Put the radio operator’s seat in the right fuselage. Tell the pilot in the left fuselage to fly the aircraft. The result is the F-82 Twin Mustang — the longest-range piston fighter...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Atlas Air is the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters. The carrier flies more 747-8Fs and 747-400s than any other airline on Earth. The 747 is, in many ways, the brand. So when Atlas walks into Toulouse and signs a $7-billion order for 20 firm and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The aircraft is the size of a Cessna 172 but flies itself. There is no pilot. There is no cockpit. There is no second seat for an emergency manual override. Pyka’s Pelican Cargo just took off, flew a 200-kilometre route over central California, and landed itself...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The General Electric J85 first ran on a test stand in 1956. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had not yet launched Sputnik. Seventy years later, the same engine — virtually unchanged in its core architecture — is being kept alive by more than $178 million in...
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