Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Most military aircraft can be summed up in a single job. Fighters fight. Bombers bomb. Attack helicopters attack. And then there is the Mil Mi-24, a machine that looked at the neat little boxes military planners like to draw and cheerfully refused to...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Ask anyone who was there and they will tell you the same thing: you heard it before you saw it. A low, chopping pulse rolling in over the treeline, whop-whop-whop, growing until it filled the whole sky. For a generation of soldiers, that sound meant...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Some aeroplanes are admired. A rare few are loved. The Hawker Hunter belongs firmly to the second category, and it has done so since the day it first slipped into the air in 1951. Ask a British pilot of a certain vintage to name the most beautiful jet...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Say “four-engine British heavy bomber” to almost anyone and you will get the same answer: the Lancaster. The Avro Lancaster is the one that flew the Dambusters raid, the one still cruising over air shows on a summer afternoon, the one...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Some aircraft whisper. The Avro Shackleton announced itself from three valleys away. Long before you could see it, you felt it: a deep, chest-rattling drone that rolled across the North Atlantic like distant artillery, the unmistakable sound of four...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Every so often an aeroplane arrives that is so obviously ahead of its moment that it embarrasses everything parked next to it. In October 1934, on a new airfield at Mildenhall in Suffolk, three of them lined up on the same morning. They were de...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Imaginez un champ en France occupée. Il est un peu plus de minuit, et la pleine lune brille au-dessus des peupliers. Trois personnes se tiennent debout dans l'herbe humide, des lampes de vélo à la main, le cœur battant la chamade. Elles écoutent. Et puis elles l'entendent : un….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Le matin du 15 juillet 1942, huit avions de guerre américains, partis à la recherche d'une accalmie au-dessus de l'Atlantique Nord, découvrirent le toit du monde. Ils avaient décollé du Groenland aux premières lueurs du jour, cap sur l'Islande puis sur le front européen, mais….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Few aircraft state their purpose as plainly as the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant. It was a barn with wings: a slab-sided freighter with a wingspan of 55.2 metres (181 ft 1 in), a nose that split open into clamshell doors, and a cargo hold eleven metres...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Picture the scene over the grey Atlantic in 1943. A Luftwaffe fighter pilot spots a fat, slow British flying boat lumbering along at wave-top height, an unmissable target the size of a small ferry. Easy kill, surely. And yet, again and again, German...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story For the first year of the Pacific war, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero had a kind of spell over Allied pilots. It turned tighter, climbed better and reached farther than anything the US Navy could put up against it, and the men flying the stubby F4F Wildcat...
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