Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Bill Allen, presidente de Boeing, observaba las carreras de hidroaviones en el lago Washington desde un yate de la compañía el 7 de agosto de 1955. El nuevo Boeing 367-80 —el prototipo de lo que se convertiría en el 707— tenía previsto sobrevolar la zona en una demostración para posibles aerolíneas...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On August 3, 1945, a Japanese test pilot named Masayoshi Tsuruno climbed into the strangest fighter prototype Japan had ever built and pushed the throttle forward. The aircraft trundled along the runway at Kyūshū Aircraft Company’s Mushiroda Airfield, lifted its...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
If you ever stand in front of the gigantic Cold War hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, you will see, parked between an XB-70 Valkyrie and a YF-12, something that looks like it landed there yesterday — a domed metal disc,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1960, in a hangar at the Bell Aircraft plant at Niagara Falls, New York, Bell unveiled the wildest single-seat fighter ever proposed by an American manufacturer. It had a needle-nosed fuselage, two wing-tip nacelles that could swivel through 100 degrees, and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 1 de agosto de 1955, Tony LeVier despegó de un extraño avión Lockheed de un lecho de lago seco en el desierto de Nevada. La aeronave tenía alas increíblemente largas y estrechas, como un planeador motorizado, y estaba propulsada por un solo motor a reacción. Ascendía como ningún otro avión que hubiera pilotado antes...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 10 September 1956, in the high desert above Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation's chief test pilot Bob Baker pushed the throttle of an aircraft nobody outside the U.S. Air Force fighter procurement office had ever heard of into afterburner. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In late 1958, in the high Texas sky over Naval Air Station Dallas, Vought's chief test pilot John Konrad flew an aircraft that could outmanoeuvre, outclimb, outrun and outturn the future F-4 Phantom II. The aircraft had a single engine. It had no radar operator....
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