Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For most of 2026, Boeing was quietly winning. Through the first four months of the year, the American giant had handed over more jets than its European rival, and it looked as though the comeback story was finally taking shape. Then came May — and Airbus took it...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline trimmed in yellow that...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Picture climbing aboard in Los Angeles, settling into a cabin tall enough to stand up straight, and stepping off in Sydney without the aircraft ever touching the ground in between. No fuel stop in Honolulu, no diversion, no second leg. That is the promise of the...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
On the afternoon of 3 June 1973, an enormous crowd packs the edges of Le Bourget airfield north of Paris, faces turned up to watch the star of the air show: the Soviet Union’s supersonic airliner, the Tupolev Tu-144. Its pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, has reportedly...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la mañana del 28 de junio de 1939, veintidós personas extraordinariamente afortunadas caminaron por un muelle en Port Washington, en Long Island, y subieron a bordo de lo que parecía un transatlántico con alas. El capitán Rod Sullivan puso en marcha los cuatro grandes motores, y el Boeing 314 que volaba...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
It is just before dawn on 17 April 1944, and a sleek, triple-tailed airliner is rolling down the runway at Lockheed’s Burbank field. In the left seat, hands on the controls, sits one of the most famous men in America: Howard Hughes — aviator, tycoon, and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
From this December, a British holidaymaker will be able to board a Boeing 787 at London Gatwick and step off it on a beach in southern Thailand — no change of plane, no Gulf stopover. Norse Atlantic Airways has announced a new nonstop service between Gatwick and...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
United Airlines just turned a Boeing 787-10 into a flying flag. On 15 June 2026, the carrier rolled out a bold “Stars and Stripes” special livery — a deep blue fuselage, fifty white stars, and diagonal red-and-white stripes sweeping across the tail...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
For the first time ever, you can fly from Alaska to New England without stopping. On 13 June 2026, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 lifted off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International and pointed its nose almost due east, bound for Boston — roughly eight hours and...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On 26 June, an EVA Air Boeing 787 will lift off from Taipei, point its nose east, and not come down until it reaches Washington Dulles. It sounds routine. It is, in fact, a first: there has never been a nonstop flight between Taiwan and the capital of the United...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Desde que se tiene memoria, viajar de Montreal a Dakar implicaba volar primero en la dirección equivocada. Hacia el noreste, a París o Bruselas, una escala, y luego de regreso al sur, a Senegal: un viaje de doce horas o más para llegar a una ciudad que se encuentra casi directamente al este, al otro lado del...
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