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...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En el otoño de 1932, un pequeño avión de fuselaje ancho, pintado de rojo y blanco, se encontraba en un aeródromo de Cleveland, con un aspecto más caricaturesco que propio de una aeronave. Era casi todo motor: una enorme nariz radial atornillada a un fuselaje rechoncho, con la cabina tan retraída...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, residents of the Los Angeles suburbs looked up to a strange and frankly alarming sight: two jet fighters chasing a lone, pilotless aircraft in tightening circles, hurling rockets at it — and missing, again and again, while the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At a secret airfield in the Nevada desert in the early 1980s, a test pilot lined up one of the ugliest aircraft ever built and pushed the throttles forward. It looked less like a jet than a flying shipping container — deep-bodied, boxy, with a curved back and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Picture an aircraft that does not sit on a runway but stands upright on its tail, nose pointed at the sky like a rocket. Around its waist spins a three-bladed wing, driven not by an engine in the fuselage but by ramjets screaming at the very tips of the blades. To...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
From the moment humans first left the ground, a certain kind of pilot has asked a dangerous question: what happens if I try this? The answers fill the wildest chapter of aviation history — a century of loops, rolls, dives and impossible threading of gaps, flown by men...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En algún lugar del centro de Francia a finales de la década de 1950, el piloto de pruebas André Turcat lleva un extraño avión de ala delta a una velocidad en la que un motor a reacción normal empieza a jadear. Y es entonces cuando el Nord Griffon cobra vida. Detrás de él, un estatorreactor del tamaño de un pequeño...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This July at Oshkosh,...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward the vertical until...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in half, tore the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 7 August 1942, over an island the Americans had invaded that very morning, a .30-calibre bullet passed through Saburō Sakai’s skull. It blinded his right eye and paralysed his left side. He was 560 nautical miles from home, alone, at war, in a fighter with no...
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