Historia y leyendas, Noticias
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On June 15, 1919, at 8:40 in the morning, a Vickers Vimy biplane with two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines and no radio contact with the outside world nosed down through the clouds over the west coast of Ireland — and drove itself straight into a bog at Derrygimlagh, near...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos brevesNacionalidadAustro-Húngaro 🇦🇹Victorias aéreas32 (el as más alto de kuk Luftfahrtruppen)Aeronave voladaAlbatros D.III, Hansa-BrandenburgGuerrasPrimera Guerra MundialNacido/fallecido5 de febrero de 1895 - 1 de agosto de 1981 (86 años)UnidadFlik 6, Flik 55J Julius Arigi - a través de Wikimedia Commons Cada guerra...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On October 3, 1967, test pilot William J. “Pete” Knight climbed into a black, dart-shaped aircraft bolted to the wing of a B-52 bomber. At 45,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, the B-52 released him. Knight lit the rocket engine. In the next 84 seconds, he accelerated...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In August 1914, when the first European armies crossed their borders and the Great War began, military aircraft were used for one purpose: watching. Unarmed reconnaissance planes flew over enemy lines, their observers sketching troop positions and supply routes. The...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of April 18, 1942 — four months and eleven days after Pearl Harbor — sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the pitching deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. They were headed for Tokyo. None of them had enough fuel to return. There was...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Two small, strange-looking aircraft were built in total secrecy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works facility in Burbank, California, between 1976 and 1977. They were angular, faceted, and looked like something a geometry student had folded out of sheet metal. They were...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In 1920, Bessie Coleman walked into every flight school in the United States that she could find. Every single one turned her away. She was Black. She was a woman. In Jim Crow America, that was two disqualifications, and neither was negotiable. So she learned French....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Eugene Jacques Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895 — the grandson of enslaved people, the son of a man who had barely escaped a lynch mob. By the time he was eleven years old, he had decided that his future lay anywhere but the American South. So he ran...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was ugly. It leaked. It trailed a filthy black smoke plume that could be spotted from thirty miles away. The cockpit was cramped, the controls were heavy, and early models did not even carry a gun — a decision that got pilots killed over Vietnam. The McDonnell...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Datos brevesNacionalidadAlemán 🇩🇪Victorias aéreas62 (segundo as alemán más alto de la Primera Guerra Mundial)Aeronave voladaFokker D.VII, Albatros D.III/D.VGuerrasPrimera Guerra MundialNacido/fallecido26 de abril de 1896 - 17 de noviembre de 1941 (45 años)UnidadJagdstaffel 37, JG I (bajo Richthofen) Nachtvögel. Aufnahme von Ernst Udet c....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On February 2, 1970, somewhere over the frozen plains of Montana, Captain Gary Foust of the 71st Fighter Interceptor Squadron had a problem that no amount of skill could solve. His F-106A Delta Dart — a supersonic interceptor designed to hunt Soviet bombers at the...
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