Aviación militar, Noticias
A grey warship longer than three football fields is steaming through the Pacific, and stealth fighters are dropping onto its deck. For most navies that would be unremarkable. For Japan, it is something close to historic — because for eighty years, Japan insisted it...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On 26 June, an EVA Air Boeing 787 will lift off from Taipei, point its nose east, and not come down until it reaches Washington Dulles. It sounds routine. It is, in fact, a first: there has never been a nonstop flight between Taiwan and the capital of the United...
Aviación militar, Noticias
For more than sixty years, “Air Force One” has meant one specific shade of pale blue — the robin’s-egg scheme drawn up for John F. Kennedy in 1962. On 19 June, a different 747 rolled into the light inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews, and the blue was gone.In its...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It sounds like paperwork: a pilot from one Air Force unit flew an aircraft alongside a pilot from another. Except the aircraft was the B-21 Raider — the most secret new warplane in the world — and one of the men at the controls was a frontline combat pilot, not a test...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
Desde que se tiene memoria, viajar de Montreal a Dakar implicaba volar primero en la dirección equivocada. Hacia el noreste, a París o Bruselas, una escala, y luego de regreso al sur, a Senegal: un viaje de doce horas o más para llegar a una ciudad que se encuentra casi directamente al este, al otro lado del...
Aviación militar, Noticias
Durante años, la carrera por construir “aeronaves de combate robóticas” —aviones no tripulados que luchan junto a pilotos humanos— parecía una historia exclusivamente estadounidense y australiana. En una sola semana de junio, Europa plantó su bandera. En la feria aeronáutica ILA de Berlín, dos actores europeos muy diferentes...
Aviación militar, Noticias
On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild Weasel tail code....
Aviación militar, Noticias
It looks, at a glance, like a rich man’s toy: a sleek Bombardier business jet, the kind that ferries executives between capitals. Then you notice the lumps. A long blade running down its spine, blisters under the belly, a fairing crowning the tail — and suddenly the...
Mundo de la aviación, Noticias
On the morning of 2 June, a pale green, primer-coated jet lifted off from Toulouse and climbed past 41,000 feet over the south of France. It carried no passengers, only test instrumentation and a hand-picked Airbus crew. It also carried a title: the longest-range...
Aviación militar, Noticias
A hypersonic missile usually costs about as much as a small mansion — tens of millions of dollars per shot, hand-built, hoarded like crown jewels. The U.S. Navy just placed an order for a hypersonic missile it hopes to buy for the price of a modest house: somewhere...
Aviación militar, Noticias
It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S. Marine Corps F-35B...
Aviación militar, Noticias
The Alpha Scramble order reaches the quick reaction alert shelter at Šiauliai before the coffee has cooled. Two Romanian F-16s, fuelled and armed, are airborne over the grey Baltic within minutes, vectored toward an unidentified contact loitering off the...
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