Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the evening of October 12, 1947, test pilot Chuck Yeager went horse riding in the Mojave Desert and fell off, breaking two ribs. Two days later, in severe pain and with his ribs tightly taped, he crawled into the cockpit of a Bell X-1 rocket plane, used a sawed-off...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos rápidosNacionalidadAlemana 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas267 (4.º de todos los tiempos)Aeronaves pilotadasFw 190A, Bf 109GGuerrasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacimiento/Fallecimiento21 de febrero de 1917 – 14 de febrero de 1945 (27 años)UnidadJG 54 “Grünherz” Segunda Guerra Mundial Noruega. Uniformes alemanes Piloto de Polarflieger de la Luftwaffe Fuego...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At dawn on August 27, 1939 — four days before Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began — test pilot Erich Warsitz climbed into a small, unremarkable-looking aircraft at the Heinkel airfield in Rostock-Marienehe and opened a throttle connected to an engine...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas275 (tercero de todos los tiempos)Avión voladoBf 109GGuerrasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacido/fallecido el 10 de marzo de 1918 - 4 de octubre de 2009 (91 años)UnidadJG 52 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J16509, Günther Rall - a través de Wikimedia Commons Hay un detalle en...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
At 7:25 PM on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg — 804 feet long, the largest aircraft ever built — caught fire while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. In 34 seconds, the largest flying object in history was a wreck on the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas301 (segundo de todos los tiempos)Avión voladoBf 109G, Fw 190GuerrasSegunda Guerra Mundial (Frente Oriental)Nacido/fallecido20 de marzo de 1919 - 8 de enero de 1983 (63 años)UnidadJG 52 5-Piloto-de-la-Luftwaffe-Major-Gerhard-Barkhorn-01 - vía Wikimedia Commons Él es el...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island — a two-mile-long coral strip in the central Pacific, 2,556 miles away. They were on the longest and most dangerous leg of an around-the-world flight....
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the evening of May 21, 1927, a single-engine monoplane appeared out of the darkness over Le Bourget airfield near Paris. The crowd waiting on the ground numbered 150,000 people — the largest gathering in French history to that point. When Charles Lindbergh stepped...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On October 6, 1971, an aircraft appeared over the Sinai Peninsula that no Israeli fighter could catch. It flew at Mach 3.2 — faster than a rifle bullet — at an altitude above 24,000 metres. Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept. They fired missiles....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos rápidosNacionalidadEspañola 🇪🇸Victorias aéreas40 (mayor as, Guerra Civil Española)Aviones pilotadosFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CGuerrasGuerra Civil Española (Nacionalista)Nacimiento/Fallecimiento25 de abril de 1904 – 4 de abril de 1939 (34 años)UnidadGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — vía Wikimedia Commons La mayoría de...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and cracked two ribs...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered production in 1959,...
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