Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 19 January 1995, a tiny piece of ice formed on the wrong piece of metal and destroyed one of the two aircraft at the heart of a pioneering German-American research programme. The piece of ice was perhaps half a centimetre across. The piece of metal it formed on was...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
For four short years in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Navy operated the strangest aerial-refuelling tanker it ever owned. It was a four-engined turboprop flying boat. It landed on water. It nose-loaded vehicles. It could refuel four jet fighters simultaneously from...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 4 September 1949, the largest land-based aircraft ever built in Britain took off on its maiden flight from Filton, near Bristol. It had a wingspan of 70 metres — longer than a Boeing 747’s. Eight engines, buried in the wings in pairs, drove four sets of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is the most consequential helicopter design in American military history. Before the Cobra, every armed helicopter in the world was a transport airframe with weapons bolted onto it — a Huey with door guns, a Mi-4 with rocket pods, a Wessex with...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Bill Allen, presidente de Boeing, observaba las carreras de hidroaviones en el lago Washington desde un yate de la compañía el 7 de agosto de 1955. El nuevo Boeing 367-80 —el prototipo de lo que se convertiría en el 707— tenía previsto sobrevolar la zona en una demostración para posibles aerolíneas...
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