Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
By late 1944, Nazi Germany was running out of almost everything an air force needs — most critically, fuel. So when Dr. Alexander Lippisch, the delta-wing pioneer behind the rocket-powered Me 163 Komet, sketched a supersonic interceptor, he gave it an engine...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En el último invierno de la guerra, con los cazas aliados ametrallando los aeródromos alemanes casi a su antojo, los ingenieros de Heinkel se plantearon una pregunta radical: ¿y si un caza no necesitara ningún aeródromo? Su respuesta, elaborada entre 1944 y marzo de 1945, fue el Lerche...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Mucho antes de que un misil ruso Shahed llegue a una ciudad ucraniana, debe ser almacenado, repostado, lanzado y guiado. En la noche del 6 al 7 de agosto, Ucrania atacó toda esa cadena a la vez, bombardeando una plataforma de lanzamiento de drones, un radar de alerta temprana y las estaciones repetidoras que...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante medio siglo, los Red Arrows han marcado el cielo británico con sus colores rojo, blanco y azul, gracias a nueve BAE Hawks volando ala con ala. Este verano, la firma quedó incompleta: los Hawk T1 desgastados obligaron al equipo a utilizar siete aviones en la mayoría de sus exhibiciones de 2026.
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
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