Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 12 August 1944, a 29-year-old naval aviator climbed into a Liberator bomber that had been stripped of its guns and filled, wingtip to wingtip, with explosives. He did not have to be there. He had flown his tour and earned his ticket home. His name...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the 1950s the U.S. Navy watched the Air Force build a fleet of long-range bombers to carry the nation’s nuclear deterrent — and decided it wanted in. Its answer was one of the strangest and most beautiful warplanes America ever built: a swept-wing jet...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En 1943, un ingeniero de 33 años prometió a las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos un avión de combate en 180 días. Alquiló una carpa de circo, la instaló junto a una fábrica de plásticos maloliente en Burbank, reunió a un grupo selecto de ingenieros y entregó el prototipo XP-80 en...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 15 de noviembre de 1988, una nave espacial que se parecía casi exactamente al transbordador espacial estadounidense despegó del cosmódromo de Baikonur sobre una columna de fuego, orbitó la Tierra dos veces y aterrizó en una pista con un viento cruzado de 60 km/h, sin nadie a bordo y sin...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was not fast. It was not pretty. It could not dogfight. And for thirty years, when the weather closed in and the target sat hidden under cloud and darkness that grounded everything else, the US Navy sent the Grumman A-6 Intruder. Subsonic, snub-nosed and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet climbed at more than 3,600 metres per minute — so fast that Allied bomber crews, seeing it for the first time in the summer of 1944, could scarcely track it. In a single breathtaking arc it could reach the bombers, fire, and be...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At the height of the Battle of Britain, with his fighter pilots being blamed for the bombers falling out of the sky, a young German ace was asked by the head of the Luftwaffe what he needed to turn things around. Adolf Galland, cigar clenched in his teeth, gave an...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Derribó más aviones enemigos que cualquier otro caza aliado de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y mató a un número espantoso de jóvenes enviados a pilotarlo, antes incluso de que conocieran a un alemán. El Sopwith Camel fue el mejor caza de combate aéreo de 1917 y una trampa mortal con...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 1 April 2001, a lumbering American spy plane and a hot-rod Chinese fighter touched wingtips over the South China Sea. One aircraft limped away with its nose torn off and 24 terrified people aboard. The other broke in half and fell into the sea,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Earlier this year the RAF’s first E-7 Wedgetail spent a period at a Wiltshire airfield most people have never heard of, having its systems activated and its radar calibrated, before it was allowed anywhere near an operational squadron. That is not unusual....
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
When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in the Royal...
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