Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the afternoon of 7 July 1946, Howard Hughes was seventy-five minutes into the first official flight of his new reconnaissance aircraft when the right side of it stopped cooperating. Every instrument said the engine was fine. It was. What had failed...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It sat on the ground at twenty-two degrees nose-up, which meant the pilot could not see forward at all. To take off and land he looked down through windows cut into the floor at his feet. The Vought V-173 was a flat disc with two enormous propellers...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung along their coastline. It did the Luftwaffe no good...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At 02:19 on 21 November 1970, an American helicopter deliberately flew itself into the trees inside a North Vietnamese prison camp twenty-three miles from Hanoi. Its rotor blades chewed through forty-foot foliage and it came down hard in a courtyard...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Dix Boeing 777-9 sont immobilisés à Everett sans opérateur, et celui qui les a commandés vient de suggérer une utilisation. Sir Tim Clark, président d'Emirates, a déclaré lundi au Telegraph, lors du salon Farnborough, que sa compagnie aérienne n'utiliserait pas ces appareils.
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the evening of 14 October 1973, a C-5A Galaxy touched down at Lod airport outside Tel Aviv carrying 97 tons of 105 mm howitzer shells. Roughly a hundred miles to the south-west, the largest tank battle since Kursk was being fought, and the Israeli...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Walk the halls at Farnborough this week and you will trip over robot aeroplanes. Anduril unveiled a tiltrotor on Monday morning. BAE and Lockheed unveiled a jammer an hour or two later. Boeing parked an Australian one on the static line. General...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Partagez cet article. Un missile AIM-120 AMRAAM coûte environ un million de dollars. Un AIM-9X Sidewinder coûte environ 450 0 ...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Le salon de Farnborough existe depuis 1948. Le Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat y a effectué son premier vol en 2021. Lundi, les deux se sont enfin rencontrés. Le drone de combat australien a fait ses débuts à Farnborough lors de la journée d'ouverture du salon, exposé statiquement….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Airshow order announcements are usually about aeroplanes. One of the largest deals of Farnborough’s opening day involved no aircraft at all. BOC Aviation, the Singapore-based lessor, signed for as many as 300 CFM LEAP engines — up to 200 LEAP-1A...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Most combat aircraft announced at airshows are defined by what they carry. Israel Aerospace Industries spent Monday introducing one defined by what it broadcasts. ELLYON has no bomb bay and no missile rails. Its weapon is a wideband electronically...
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