Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
By the summer of 1944, London was under siege from a weapon no one could see coming until it was too late. The V-1 flying bomb — the “doodlebug” — buzzed across the Channel by the hundred, and its droning pulsejet was a sound Londoners learned to dread. When the...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Hace medio siglo, el SEPECAT Jaguar surcaba a toda velocidad las llanuras del norte de Alemania, con una bomba nuclear suspendida bajo su fuselaje y el Pacto de Varsovia en la mira. Francia lo retiró en 2005. Gran Bretaña lo dejó de usar en 2007. Omán aparcó sus últimos ejemplares en...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On the morning of 24 September 1958, a flight of Nationalist Chinese F-86 Sabres was climbing over the Taiwan Strait when a formation of Communist MiG-17s slid past — a little higher and, on paper, the better aircraft. Then the Sabres did something no fighter had ever...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Here is a riddle the Pentagon wrote by accident and never quite solved. In December 2005 the U.S. Air Force fielded the most fearsome air superiority fighter ever built — the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — expressly to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Two...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
De vez en cuando aparece un caza que gana su contienda de forma tan contundente que la discusión simplemente termina. El Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor es ese avión. Superó en vuelo a un prototipo rival, redefinió el papel de un caza y entró en servicio como el más capaz...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Dawn over Kadena, and the concrete is already trembling. Two Pratt & Whitney turbofans spool up behind a jet the size of a small barn, the pilot walks the throttles into afterburner, and for a heartbeat the whole world is noise. Then the nose comes up — and keeps...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
La mayoría de los pilotos de combate siguen el mismo camino: escuela de vuelo, nombramiento como oficial, cabina de mando antes de tener edad suficiente para alquilar un coche sin recargo. Kenneth Gilmore se formó en un programa de fútbol americano. Antes incluso de experimentar las fuerzas G, ya diseñaba jugadas en un...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Somewhere over the Nevada high desert, a young American fighter pilot rolls into a turn and sees something that should not exist. A stubby, silver dart is sliding into formation off his wing — snub nose, sharp delta, a red star where a national insignia ought to be....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a submarine, and was built, in all seriousness, to stalk and kill American nuclear missile boats. It...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Autumn, 1933. On a grass airfield outside Kharkiv, a shape rolls out of its hangar that looks less like an aeroplane and more like a building that has decided to fly. Its wing stretches 53 metres from tip to tip — thick enough for a grown man to walk inside it and...
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