Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story For most of the last thirty years, the answer to “who builds America’s fighter jets?” was almost boringly simple. Lockheed Martin built the stealth fighters, and everyone else competed for what was left. Then, in the space of about...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story For twenty years the Atlantic had been killing balloonists. Since 1958, five men had died trying to drift across it, and every attempt — more than a dozen of them — had ended in the sea. Then, in August 1978, three amateurs from Albuquerque climbed...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It is one of the Second World War’s most durable legends: that in January 1944 a giant six-engined German bomber took off from occupied France, crossed the Atlantic, flew to within sight of Manhattan, photographed the skyline, and slipped home...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story By 1944, Germany’s bomber fleets were spent, and the V-1 flying bomb — the “buzz bomb” — was terrorising London with one glaring flaw: it could miss a target the size of Greater London entirely. Someone proposed a brutally simple fix...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In 1939 the U.S. Army Air Corps put out a request for something deliberately radical — a fighter that broke the rules of how a fighter should be built. Vultee’s answer was the XP-54: a twin-boom machine with an inverted gull wing, the engine and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In 1935 the Soviet Union built the largest aircraft on Earth — an eight-engined giant with a wingspan to rival a modern Boeing 747, fitted out not with weapons but with a printing press, a photographic lab, a telephone exchange, a cinema, and a radio...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Il avait 31 ans – un âge vénérable pour un pilote de chasse – et c’est ainsi que Gregory Boyington, un Marine alcoolique et deux fois divorcé, reçut le surnom de “ Pappy ”. En 1943, il était aussi presque fini : un ancien Tigre Volant….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story He was born in Brazil, to a father from Alsace and a mother from Lorraine, and learned to fly at a club in Rio. He would end the war a wing commander in the Royal Air Force at the age of twenty-four, and General de Gaulle would call him...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Il était un peu moins de 21 heures, le soir du 18 avril 1995, et le capitaine Brian Udell pilotait son F-15E Strike Eagle au-dessus de l'Atlantique, au large de la Caroline du Nord. À ses côtés se trouvait son officier des systèmes d'armes, le capitaine Dennis White. C'était une mission de routine….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At 11:20 on the morning of 25 January 1966, a Lockheed test pilot named Bill Weaver lifted an SR-71 Blackbird off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Beside him, in the reconnaissance systems officer’s seat, sat Jim Zwayer. A few hours later,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Une modeste base aérienne du sud-est de la Bulgarie est devenue le nouveau point de friction entre Téhéran et l'Occident, et la cause n'est ni un bombardier ni un avion de chasse furtif, mais une flotte de stations-service volantes vieillissantes. Fin juillet 2026, la Bulgarie….
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