Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Farnborough 2026 ha concluido y, por una vez, el titular no es un récord. Boeing superó por poco a Airbus en la carrera por los pedidos, pero la verdadera noticia del evento fue lo modesta que resultó ser dicha carrera. Según el recuento de Reuters, Boeing registró 173 pedidos para...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
El 15 de noviembre de 1988, una nave espacial que se parecía casi exactamente al transbordador espacial estadounidense despegó del cosmódromo de Baikonur sobre una columna de fuego, orbitó la Tierra dos veces y aterrizó en una pista con un viento cruzado de 60 km/h, sin nadie a bordo y sin...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
There is a place in the sky where flying too slow will kill you and flying too fast will kill you — and the gap between the two can be narrower than the length of a bus. Pilots call it the coffin corner, and it is one of the strangest, most unforgiving pieces of...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Ten Boeing 777-9s are sitting in Everett with nobody to fly them, and the man who ordered them has just suggested a use. Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline, told The Telegraph at Farnborough on Monday that his airline will not be taking the first batch of...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
An AIM-120 AMRAAM costs about a million dollars. An AIM-9X Sidewinder costs around $450,000. A Shahed-type one-way attack drone costs perhaps $20,000 to $50,000, and Iran and its partners can build them faster than anyone can afford to shoot them down with...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Airshow order announcements are usually about aeroplanes. One of the largest deals of Farnborough’s opening day involved no aircraft at all. BOC Aviation, the Singapore-based lessor, signed for as many as 300 CFM LEAP engines — up to 200 LEAP-1A and 100 LEAP-1B....
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Two hours out of Rome, somewhere over the south-east of England, Alaska Airlines flight 181 turned around. The Boeing 787-9 had left Fiumicino at 15:45 on Sunday afternoon bound for Seattle, climbed to 34,000 feet and headed north-west across France. Then the track on...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
En diciembre de 2011, un Boeing 767 de Air Zimbabwe aterrizó en el aeropuerto de Londres Gatwick y no despegó. Fue incautado por deudas impagadas, y con él se perdió la última conexión aérea directa entre Zimbabue y el Reino Unido, una ruta que la aerolínea había operado desde abril de 1980.
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
The first big order of Farnborough 2026 landed before most of the stands had finished setting up. Riyadh Air, the Saudi carrier that flew its first paying passenger barely three weeks ago, spent Monday morning committing to 34 more widebody aircraft across both Boeing...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar, Noticias
The gates opened at Farnborough this morning. For the next five days a stretch of Hampshire tarmac becomes the place where the aerospace industry finds out what everyone else has been building, and where roughly a hundred thousand people stand in a field watching very...
Mundo de la aviación, Aviación militar
From the air it looks like a filing system for aeroplanes. Row upon row of them, wingtip to wingtip, laid out across ten square kilometres of Arizona desert in lines so straight they look drawn. Bombers here. Fighters there. Transports over there. Around four thousand...
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