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Category: HISTORY

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Quo Vadis Iberia?

Posted on 27 October, 201330 April, 2018 by aeriaa

  It is really ironic that this question could be formulated by any Hispania’s roman centurion more than 2.000 years ago. Cartago established on the Hispania’s east coast and promote the commerce of mineral deposits and goods in the mediterranean area. Hannibal was devastating Italica and Rome needed to cut their procurement chain between Hispania…

Boeing 747 roll-out ceremony. 30th of september 1968

On an airplane legend. Boeing 747 (Rollout 45th anniversary)

Posted on 29 September, 201330 April, 2018 by aeriaa

  The 747’s story is the story of its Principal Engineer, Joe Sutter, it is the story of Boeing, it is the story of the “right plane”, it is the story of “The Incredibles”, it is the story of the aviation’s golden age, it is the story of the “Queen of the air”, it is…

D21 illustration by Lou Drendel. www.aviation-art.net

On the beginnings of drones

Posted on 11 July, 20131 May, 2018 by aeriaa

1962, one of the Cold War’s Milestones, the Cuban’s Missiles Crisis and the Blockade, John Glenn the first american orbited the Earth in the NASA’s Mercury Program, Neil Armstrong as a test pilot, among others, flew with the X-15 plane to 40km altitudes and Mach 7 (Armstrong reached a 6.420 km/h speed), the Boeing 707…

Reservations Terminal

On the origins of the Airline’s Electronic Reservations Systems. Iberia, Aviaco and IBM’s study (Part II)

Posted on 19 February, 201330 April, 2018 by aeriaa

In the first part of this series, I talked about the early steps taken by Aviaco and Iberia in order to  mechanize the reservations processes, one of these steps was an IBM study for collecting the basic requirements, model the basic data, tests the concept and make projections about the reservation’s business. This post is about…

On the beginning of Stealth planes. From Cold War to Iraq

Posted on 10 February, 201330 April, 2018 by aeriaa

I’ve been reading a book of the Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin’s Advance Development Programs) history, and the story about the beginning of the stealth planes trapped me. This is a tale about spying, project management, applied science, military visionaries, processes improvement, politics and the most famous war night broadcasted on TV.

IBM study for Iberia and Aviaco

On the origins of the Airline’s Electronic Reservations Systems. A grandfather’s story (Part I)

Posted on 29 January, 201330 April, 2018 by aeriaa

This is the my grandfather’s story about the one of the first european airline’s electronic reservations systems. Photo. UNIVAC 494 The beginning of this story took place in late 50’s, the local spanish airline Aviacion y Comercio (Aviaco, IATA:AO, ICAO:AYC) had two visionary workers Pepe Fernandez Monreal (my grandfather) and Rafael de la Torre. They…

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