Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 07:55 on the morning of 18 April 1988, a voice crackled from the destroyer USS Merrill across the VHF band, first in Farsi, then in English: the occupants of the Sassan gas and oil separation platform had five minutes to leave. On the steel decks above the green...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Imágenes satelitales comerciales han revelado dos estructuras reforzadas de un tipo desconocido en el complejo de pruebas y entrenamiento de misiles más importante de China, y su geometría no coincide con ninguna catalogada previamente en el lugar. Las estructuras, en el Centro de Pruebas y Entrenamiento de Misiles del Pueblo...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that fit: it was, he...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El documento más importante en la historia de los aviones furtivos no fue escrito en California ni en un aeródromo secreto en el desierto. Fue escrito en Moscú, en ruso, por un físico soviético, y la Unión Soviética permitió que se publicara en el extranjero porque decidió que el trabajo no tenía ninguna utilidad...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the afternoon of 26 October 2001, Boeing chairman Phil Condit stood with his Joint Strike Fighter chief, Frank Statkus, in front of a television carrying a live feed from the Pentagon. The largest defence contract in history — one stealth fighter for four armed...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Walk up to the Dornier Do 335 and something looks wrong. There is a propeller on the nose, as expected — and then a second propeller on the tail, spinning behind the fin. The Germans called it the Pfeil, the Arrow. It was the fastest piston-engined fighter the Third...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Look at almost any jet airliner and the engines are in one of two places: slung under the wings, or bolted to the tail. Now look at the VFW-614. Its two engines sit on pylons on top of the wings — a layout almost no other airliner in history has ever used. It was West...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 28 July 1944, P-51 pilots of the 359th Fighter Group were escorting B-17s away from Merseburg when someone called out contrails high at six o’clock. Two stubby, tailless shapes came slicing down through the formation faster than anything the Americans had...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A few minutes past midnight on 24 January 1961, a Mark 39 hydrogen bomb drifted down through the winter darkness over Wayne County, North Carolina, swinging beneath a 30-metre (100-foot) parachute. It settled nose-first into a field near the hamlet of Faro and came to...
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