Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
In August 1944, as Allied armies raced across France, a 52-year-old prisoner was put aboard a transport at Drancy bound for the Buchenwald concentration camp. The Vichy regime had already jailed him, together with his wife and children. Now the Nazis were deporting...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
At noon on 18 February 1944, the guards of Amiens prison sat down to lunch, as they did every day. Outside, snow lay deep across Picardy and the sky was a low grey ceiling. Inside the cruciform building, behind a three-and-a-half-metre perimeter wall, were hundreds of...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
En la mañana del sábado 27 de octubre de 1962, el mayor Rudolf “Rudy” Anderson Jr. fue sellado en su traje presurizado en la base aérea McCoy en Orlando, Florida. No estaba programado para ese día; había presionado mucho para que se le asignara la misión. Sería su...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
El 27 de febrero de 1959, tres petroleros británicos conducían por una llanura de grava en lo profundo del Sahara libio, a cientos de kilómetros de cualquier lugar habitado, cuando una silueta de doble cola emergió del resplandor del calor. Era un bombardero pesado estadounidense, partido en dos justo detrás de las alas, tendido...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
Northwest of Hanoi runs a long spine of mountains called the Tam Dao range. The men who flew the Republic F-105 Thunderchief against North Vietnam never called it that. They named it after their airplane — and after what happened to so many of them beside it....
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
It is the evening of 27 October 1962, and inside Soviet submarine B-59, somewhere north of Cuba, the temperature has passed 45 degrees Celsius and the air is running out. The batteries are almost dead. Men are fainting at their stations. For hours, American depth...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
On 28 July 1944, P-51 pilots of the 359th Fighter Group were escorting B-17s away from Merseburg when someone called out contrails high at six o’clock. Two stubby, tailless shapes came slicing down through the formation faster than anything the Americans had...
Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar
A few minutes past midnight on 24 January 1961, a Mark 39 hydrogen bomb drifted down through the winter darkness over Wayne County, North Carolina, swinging beneath a 30-metre (100-foot) parachute. It settled nose-first into a field near the hamlet of Faro and came to...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Off the south coast of England, a small black flying wing shot off a catapult rail bolted to the deck of a moving Royal Navy ship, climbed away on a whining turbojet, and flew itself to a target. No pilot, no recovery, no second chances — the Nyan is designed to...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under — and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to...
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