¿Qué ocurre realmente dentro de un túnel de viento?

¿Qué ocurre realmente dentro de un túnel de viento?

Cada aeronave que has visto en el cielo fue probada primero en una sala donde no vuela absolutamente nada. Los túneles de viento son, conceptualmente, las herramientas más simples de la ingeniería aeroespacial: se toma un tubo, se introduce aire en un extremo, se coloca un modelo en el medio y se mide lo que sucede. En...
Air Canada Bets Big on a Smaller Jet

Air Canada Bets Big on a Smaller Jet

On the first morning of June, an Air Canada jet pushed back at Montreal and pointed its nose at Nantes, a tidy French city on the Loire that no Canadian airline had ever served nonstop. Two days later, a widebody lifted off from Toronto bound for Shanghai for the...
China Eastern Bets $9 Billion on Airbus

China Eastern Bets $9 Billion on Airbus

On a Friday afternoon in Shanghai, executives from China Eastern Airlines and Airbus signed their names to a document that quietly reshapes the balance of power in the world’s most fought-over aviation market. The deal: 25 brand-new Airbus A330-900neo widebodies, with...
300 Feet From Disaster at Boston Logan

300 Feet From Disaster at Boston Logan

A football field is 300 feet long. On the morning of 20 June 2026, that was roughly the margin between an ordinary Saturday at Boston Logan and a disaster the whole country would still be talking about. Delta Flight 2351, an Airbus A319 in from Dallas with 135 people...