Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four rebuilt engines ran sweetly. Half a century of Arctic exile was about to...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Sábado por la mañana, 28 de julio de 1945. Nueva York está envuelta en una niebla tan espesa que el tercio superior del Empire State Building simplemente ha desaparecido. A las 9:40 de la mañana, los oficinistas del piso 79 oyen un sonido que ningún oficinista debería oír jamás: motores de avión, cerca, acercándose...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 16 August 1966, an Iraqi Air Force captain named Munir Redfa strapped into his MiG-21F-13 for what his squadron believed was a routine long-range training sortie. He had full fuel tanks — a privilege he had rarely been granted — and a...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Durante tres décadas de la Guerra Fría, la disuasión nuclear británica se basó en las alas de tres aeronaves extraordinarias: el Vickers Valiant, el Avro Vulcan y el Handley Page Victor. Conocidos colectivamente como los bombarderos V, fueron diseñados para transportar ojivas atómicas y...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Handley Page Victor was the last and most advanced of Britain’s three V-bombers — and the one with the longest career. Designed to carry nuclear weapons to Moscow at high altitude, it outlived its original mission by decades, reinventing itself as the Royal...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
With 36,183 examples built, the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik is the most-produced military aircraft in history — and arguably the most important ground-attack platform of the Second World War. Soviet infantry called it “the flying tank.” German soldiers called...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers, opened...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was never the fastest, highest-climbing, or most manoeuvrable fighter of the Second World War. What it was, in every theatre from North Africa to China to the Aleutians, was available — and in the hands of pilots who understood its strengths,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational supersonic bomber — a Mach 2 delta-wing marvel that could outrun every interceptor of its era. It was also one of the most dangerous aircraft in the United States Air Force inventory, killing more than...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 lifted off from Bandar Abbas International Airport bound for Dubai — a routine 28-minute hop across the Strait of Hormuz. Seven minutes later, the Airbus A300 was falling out of the sky in pieces, struck by two SM-2...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Twenty Sea Harriers sailed south with the Royal Navy task force in April 1982. None of them should have survived. The Argentine Air Force outnumbered them five to one, flew faster jets, and operated from concrete runways while the British pilots launched from pitching...
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