Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture the view from the cockpit. The sea is a grey blur a hundred feet below, ripping past at well over 500 knots. The horizon barely moves; the world is a tunnel of speed. Most aircraft, this low and this fast, would be a snarling, twitchy handful, fighting their...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En el espectáculo aéreo de Farnborough de 1953, el público lo oyó antes de verlo. Diez motores, que pasaron de un zumbido a un rugido, y entonces el hidroavión totalmente metálico más grande jamás construido se deslizó por encima: una ballena plateada hecha de aeronave, un ala de 67 metros, un transatlántico que...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is 21 October 1929, and 169 people are about to do something no group of human beings has ever done: leave the ground together, in a single aircraft. On the surface of Lake Constance sits the reason — a flying boat so vast that the men servicing its engines...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En la mañana del 2 de septiembre de 1958, un avión de transporte cuatrimotor zumbaba hacia el este a través del cielo despejado cerca de la frontera turco-soviética. Para cualquiera que levantara la vista, se trataba simplemente de un C-130 Hércules, un avión de carga sin mayor atractivo. Pero no lo era. El avión con número de cola 60528 iba cargado de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is the morning of 7 January 1991, and Dick Cheney is about to do something a Defense Secretary almost never does. Standing at the Pentagon podium, the war in the Persian Gulf only days away, he announces that he is killing one of the Navy’s most important...
Aviación militar, Noticias
There are 21 B-2 Spirits in the world, and on any given day most of them are sitting in climate-controlled hangars in Missouri. So when one of these $2-billion flying wings turns up on the far side of the planet, it is never a coincidence. It is a message. This month...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For all its sophistication, the F-35 has carried an awkward secret: it could not sink a ship without compromising the one thing it is famous for. Any missile big enough to threaten a modern warship had to hang under the wings — and the moment it does, the...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere over western Maryland on Saturday, a private pilot was having an ordinary flight — right up until a fighter jet appeared off the wingtip. Around 12:20 p.m. on 20 June 2026, a small general-aviation aircraft wandered into a Temporary Flight Restriction...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Aviación militar, Noticias
British defence programmes are not, as a rule, famous for speed. The Ajax armoured vehicle spent eight years mired in delay; the RAF’s Wedgetail radar aircraft arrived three years late. So when three new long-range strike weapons go from a sheet of paper to a...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Here is America’s hypersonic problem in one sentence: the missiles work, but the factory doesn’t. The United States has spent years and billions proving it can build weapons that scream through the sky at more than five times the speed of sound. What it...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
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