Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Il y a deux semaines, l'actualité était marquée par le retour des avions à leur base. Des Raptors quittaient le Golfe pour l'Angleterre, des escadrons étaient relevés, et le cessez-le-feu était suffisamment respecté pour que l'US Air Force puisse réduire sa présence dans la région. Cela n'a duré que très peu de temps….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On the morning of 16 July, two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoons met in European airspace and took fuel from a French A330 Phenix tanker. No weapons were carried. The manoeuvres were unremarkable. Any air force in NATO does this on...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. À l'automne 1980, des ingénieurs américains ont fixé trente roquettes sur un C-130 Hercules. Le plan était à la fois insensé et d'un sérieux implacable : faire atterrir le quadriréacteur dans un stade de football au cœur de Téhéran, l'immobiliser à l'intérieur du terrain, charger….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In the late 1950s the US Army went looking for a machine that no one had ever quite built: something between a jeep and a helicopter. A flying jeep — a simple platform a soldier could stand on, lift straight up, and buzz over a battlefield. It sounds...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On paper, the Rockwell XFV-12 was a dream: a supersonic, Mach-2 fighter that could rise straight up off a small ship’s deck, fight like an F-4 Phantom, and land vertically in a space no runway could offer. The US Navy wanted it badly. Rockwell...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In 1942, someone at General Motors had a tidy idea: instead of designing a new fighter from scratch, why not bolt one together from parts of aircraft that already existed? Take a Mustang’s wings, a dive-bomber’s tail, a Corsair’s landing gear, wrap...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It looked like the future had landed on a dry lakebed in California: a needle-nosed, stiletto-slim jet built entirely for speed, sheathed in titanium, designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest research...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Everyone knows the Lockheed A-12 and its famous descendant, the SR-71 Blackbird — the black, Mach-3 spy planes that outran every missile ever fired at them. Almost nobody remembers the aircraft that nearly beat them to the job: Convair’s Kingfish, an...
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