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...
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
The A Shau valley, 10 March 1966. A Special Forces camp is being overrun by two thousand North Vietnamese regulars. The hills either side rise fifteen hundred feet and the cloud base is at eight hundred, which means any aircraft coming to help has to fly below the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer from Tennessee...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas DC-8 — the same...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In the autumn of 1980, American engineers strapped thirty rockets to a C-130 Hercules. The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load fifty-two American...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A finales de la década de 1950, el Ejército estadounidense buscaba una máquina que nadie había construido hasta entonces: algo intermedio entre un jeep y un helicóptero. Un jeep volador: una plataforma sencilla sobre la que un soldado pudiera subirse, elevarse verticalmente y sobrevolar el campo de batalla. Suena a dibujo animado...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Sobre el papel, el Rockwell XFV-12 era un sueño: un caza supersónico Mach 2 capaz de despegar verticalmente de la cubierta de un pequeño barco, combatir como un F-4 Phantom y aterrizar verticalmente en un espacio que ninguna pista de aterrizaje podía ofrecer. La Armada estadounidense lo deseaba con vehemencia. Rockwell prometió que podría ser...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly recorded it as the first...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En 1942, a alguien en General Motors se le ocurrió una idea ingeniosa: en lugar de diseñar un nuevo caza desde cero, ¿por qué no ensamblarlo con piezas de aviones ya existentes? Tomar las alas de un Mustang, la cola de un bombardero en picado, el tren de aterrizaje de un Corsair, envolverlas alrededor del...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It looked like the future had landed on a dry lakebed in California: a needle-nosed, stiletto-slim jet built entirely for speed, sheathed in titanium, designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest research aircraft of its...
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