Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Dentro de MiGFlug
Antes de los cohetes. Antes de que los coches eléctricos se popularizaran. Antes de Marte, antes de los túneles, antes de las redes sociales, había un joven emprendedor sudafricano en el desierto de Nevada, atado a la cabina de un avión de la Guerra Fría, sonriendo bajo una...
Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas
En la tarde del 27 de mayo de 1919, un pesado hidroavión de cuatro motores descendió a través de la bruma del Atlántico y aterrizó en el estuario del Tajo, cerca de Lisboa, Portugal. Su casco estaba manchado de sal. Su tripulación de seis personas no había dormido bien en dos días. Y con eso...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Aterrizó en un campo de cultivo a las afueras de Londonderry, Irlanda del Norte, el 21 de mayo de 1932, y el granjero que corrió por el césped le preguntó si venía de lejos. “De América”, respondió ella. Había estado volando durante 14 horas y 56 minutos, en un...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La aeronave medía 6,07 metros de largo. Llevaba una ojiva de 1200 kilogramos en su morro. La cabina solo contaba con instrumentos rudimentarios: un indicador de velocidad, un altímetro, un indicador de actitud y los controles para encender tres motores cohete de combustible sólido. No había...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Bessie Coleman walked into every flying school in Chicago and was turned away from every one. The year was 1919. No American flight school would accept a student who was both Black and a woman. Most would not accept her for either reason alone. A lesser person would...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 27 September 1956, Captain Mel Apt of the US Air Force became the first human being to fly faster than three times the speed of sound. He was at 65,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, in California, dropped from beneath a Boeing B-50 Superfortress mothership,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
The morning of 16 April 1912 was perfect — or so it seemed. Harriet Quimby stood at Folkestone, England, in her trademark plum-coloured flying suit, preparing to become the first woman to fly the English Channel. There was one problem. Fog had rolled in over the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
You know what a B-17 looks like. Four radial engines. The towering tail fin. Glass nose. Heavy-bomber Americana, stamped onto a thousand black-and-white photographs of the daylight raids over Germany. Now picture one with a fifth engine bolted to its nose — a giant...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Three were built. Three flew. One crashed. Two went into storage. None ever entered service. The Lockheed YF-12 is one of those aircraft that should have rewritten the book on continental air defence and instead became a footnote — overshadowed by the SR-71 Blackbird...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 10 January 1964, a B-52H Stratofortress flown by a Boeing test crew on a structural test flight near East Spanish Peak in southern Colorado when it flew into the worst clear-air turbulence anyone aboard had ever experienced. There was no warning, no cloud cover, no...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 1 November 1950, UN pilots over North Korea encountered something they had not expected: a swept-wing jet fighter faster, more agile, and better armed than anything in their inventory. The MiG-15 appeared above the Yalu River — the border between North Korea and...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It was the fastest fighter at low level in the Royal Air Force inventory, faster than the Spitfire below 15,000 feet. It carried four 20mm cannons in its nose — twice the firepower of any other British fighter. It first flew in October 1938 and entered service in...
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