Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Lorsqu'une collision entre deux aéronefs se produit en plein vol — comme ce fut récemment le cas avec un EA-18G Growler sur la base aérienne de Mountain Home — le champ de débris peut s'étendre sur des kilomètres. Des morceaux d'aluminium, des câbles et des composants avioniques sont éparpillés sur le terrain selon des schémas qui semblent aléatoires pour un œil non averti.
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable year. Not one of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It is some...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown, more than a third...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only credible direct...
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