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...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On a freezing afternoon in May 1942, on a frozen lake near the Ural town of Bilimbay, a stubby green aeroplane the size of a fighter trainer crouched on the snow. It carried no propeller. In its tail sat a steel chamber fed by red fuming nitric acid and kerosene...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 17 March 1947, two test pilots lifted a four-engined jet off the hard-packed lakebed at Muroc, in the California high desert, and into a clear blue sky. The aircraft was ungainly, slab-sided, and unmistakably a product of the piston age with...
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