Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Every bomb ever built before 1944 was designed to hit the thing it was aimed at. Barnes Wallis built two that were designed to land next to it. This was not a compromise or an admission that bombing was inaccurate. It was the entire principle. Wallis had worked out...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Cuando misiles iraníes atacaron una base aérea en el este de Jordania el viernes pasado y mataron a militares estadounidenses, la base fue identificada en todos los informes por su nombre: Muwaffaq Salti. Casi nadie fuera de Jordania sabe quién era. Era teniente primero en la Real Fuerza Aérea...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Militarily, Suez worked. In six days, Anglo-French air power destroyed the Egyptian Air Force largely on the ground, paratroops took an airfield, Royal Marines made the first helicopter assault in the history of warfare, and the invasion force held the northern end of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Everything a combat pilot knows about dropping a bomb assumes air. Thick air, at sensible altitudes, where wings generate predictable lift, engines produce rated thrust, and a weapon released at a known speed follows a known arc to the ground. In May 1999 the Indian...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
A reporter at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday evening asked President Trump a direct question: the Qatari jet he is now flying as Air Force One does not have antimissile defences, so why is he flying it? The answer confirmed what aviation and security specialists have...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At 2005 on 17 May 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was told that an Iraqi aircraft had left the mainland and was heading south down the Persian Gulf. This was not alarming. Iraqi aircraft did this most nights, hunting tankers carrying Iranian oil, and they...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Valle de A Shau, 10 de marzo de 1966. Un campamento de las Fuerzas Especiales está siendo tomado por dos mil soldados regulares norvietnamitas. Las colinas a ambos lados se elevan mil quinientos pies y la base de las nubes está a ochocientos pies, lo que significa que cualquier aeronave que venga a ayudar tiene que volar por debajo de...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Every argument about autonomous combat aircraft eventually arrives at the same question, and it is not a technical one. It is whether the person in the cockpit will trust the thing flying off their wing. Frank Kendall, who ran the US Air Force as its Secretary from...
Aviación militar, Noticias
La base aérea lleva el nombre de un hombre que murió en un accidente aéreo. El teniente Muwaffaq Salti era piloto de la Real Fuerza Aérea Jordana y murió en combate con cazas israelíes el 13 de noviembre de 1966 durante la Batalla de Samu. Jordania le dio su nombre a la base de Azraq, en las afueras de...
Aviación militar, Noticias
If you happened to be at Birmingham Airport on the afternoon of 15 July, you would have seen something that looked like a mistake: a Boeing 737 with a large rectangular fin bolted to its spine, painted an unlovely metallic green, climbing out over the West Midlands....
Aviación militar, Noticias
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
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