Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 20 June 1951, over the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, test pilot Jean “Skip” Ziegler did something no pilot had ever done. As his stubby little research jet, the Bell X-5, climbed away from the desert floor, he reached for a control and the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la mañana del 28 de junio de 1939, veintidós personas extraordinariamente afortunadas caminaron por un muelle en Port Washington, en Long Island, y subieron a bordo de lo que parecía un transatlántico con alas. El capitán Rod Sullivan puso en marcha los cuatro grandes motores, y el Boeing 314 que volaba...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is the middle of the night somewhere over the Norwegian Sea, and a four-engine turboprop is flying low and slow above the black water. Inside, a Navy flight officer hunches over a screen, watching a pattern of floating microphones he has just seeded across the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just before dawn on 17 April 1944, and a sleek, triple-tailed airliner is rolling down the runway at Lockheed’s Burbank field. In the left seat, hands on the controls, sits one of the most famous men in America: Howard Hughes — aviator, tycoon, and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is 7 March 1964, and the desert south of Cairo shimmers in the morning heat. On the runway at Helwan sits a tiny, needle-nosed delta-wing jet, barely bigger than a sports car with wings. An Egyptian test pilot runs the engine up, releases the brakes, and the little...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Era una tarde soleada y ordinaria en Florida. Alrededor de las dos de la tarde del 5 de diciembre de 1945, cinco bombarderos torpederos Grumman Avenger despegaron de la pista de la Estación Aeronaval de Fort Lauderdale en un ejercicio de navegación rutinario. Catorce hombres, un cielo despejado, un trozo de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A 22.966 metros de altura sobre el mar Báltico, el mundo es de un azul oscuro arriba y curvo abajo, y el único sonido en la cabina es el silbido del traje presurizado. La mañana del 29 de junio de 1987, esa calma se rompió con una explosión. El motor derecho del SR-71 Blackbird del teniente coronel Duane Noll...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just after two in the morning over the mid-Atlantic, and the cockpit of an Airbus A330 has gone quiet in the worst possible way. No engine hum. No thrust. Just the thin whistle of air over an airframe weighing more than 180 tonnes, sinking toward a black ocean...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At 11,000 feet over the wooded hills north of New York City, on a grey December afternoon, two airliners that were never supposed to meet found themselves on a converging path. Within seconds the tip of a Boeing 707’s left wing sliced through the triple tail of...
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