Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 was one half of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 on the front and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 whatsoever, because...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 roughly the size...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Ten Boeing 777-9s are sitting in Everett with nobody to fly them, and the man who ordered them has just suggested a use. Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline, told The Telegraph at Farnborough on Monday that his airline will not be taking the first batch of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 army was running...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
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 Atomics brought its...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
An AIM-120 AMRAAM costs about a million dollars. An AIM-9X Sidewinder costs around $450,000. A Shahed-type one-way attack drone costs perhaps $20,000 to $50,000, and Iran and its partners can build them faster than anyone can afford to shoot them down with...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Farnborough has been running since 1948. The Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat first flew in 2021. On Monday, finally, the two met. Australia’s uncrewed combat aircraft made its Farnborough debut on the show’s opening day — on static display, in the US Department of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Les annonces de commandes lors des salons aéronautiques concernent généralement des avions. L'une des plus importantes transactions de la journée d'ouverture de Farnborough n'impliquait aucun appareil. BOC Aviation, le loueur basé à Singapour, a signé un contrat pour pas moins de 300 moteurs CFM LEAP — jusqu'à 200 LEAP-1A et 100 LEAP-1B...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le drone avait déjà été abattu. C'est ce détail qui distingue cette perte des autres. Samedi, dans le nord de l'Irak, un militaire américain a été tué lors de la détonation contrôlée d'un engin explosif non explosé récupéré après la destruction d'un drone iranien.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
La plupart des avions de combat présentés lors des salons aéronautiques se distinguent par leur armement. Israel Aerospace Industries a passé la journée de lundi à présenter un appareil qui se caractérise par son système de diffusion. L'ELLYON est dépourvu de soute à bombes et de rails pour missiles. Son armement est un brouilleur à balayage électronique à large bande, et….
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