Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Picture a man leaning out of an open cockpit in a powder-blue military tunic he designed himself, a waxed moustache curling at the tips, waving to the crowd — and cradling a live lion cub in the crook of his arm. That was Roscoe Turner, and in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Grumman set out to build the finest carrier fighter of the Second World War: a twin-engine brute that could outrun and outgun anything in the sky and haul a bomber’s worth of ordnance off a flight deck. It succeeded. The Tigercat was...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Somewhere under the muddy shallows of Wassaw Sound, off the coast of Georgia, sits a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb. The United States Air Force dropped it there in 1958, searched for ten weeks, gave up, and has left it alone ever since. It is one of a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Shortly after 11 a.m. on 16 August 1942, a sagging, half-deflated US Navy blimp came drifting low over the rooftops of Daly City, California, snagging telephone wires as a crowd chased it through the streets. It finally sank onto the pavement in front...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story He had one eye, a sixth-grade education and a criminal record. He was also, by any honest measure, one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. Wiley Post circled the planet alone before most people had ever sat in an aeroplane, built the suit that made...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Partagez cette histoire. Le soir du 4 septembre 1936, un monoplan turquoise et argent décolla d'un aérodrome de l'Oxfordshire et prit le large au-dessus de l'Atlantique, dans l'obscurité et face au vent. Aux commandes, seule, se trouvait une femme de 33 ans qui n'avait jamais piloté d'avion...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Deux mois après qu'un missile soviétique abattit Gary Powers et son U-2, un autre avion américain patrouillait aux confins du même empire. Le 1er juillet 1960, un Boeing RB-47H effectuait une mission de reconnaissance électronique solitaire à haute altitude au-dessus de….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Six weeks ago, Riyadh Air did not fly anywhere. On 30 July 2026, Saudi Arabia’s brand-new flag carrier opens a year-round route between Riyadh and Kuala Lumpur — its first scheduled service into Southeast Asia, and another sprint in one of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story For one week every July, a regional airport in eastern Wisconsin becomes the busiest patch of sky on the planet. In 2026 it also became the most crowded it has ever been. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026, the annual fly-in the Experimental Aircraft...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The order is worth SEK 10.1 billion — a little over one billion US dollars. It covers two of the most sophisticated surveillance aircraft flying today. And the customer? Saab will not say. Not the country, not the air force, not a single...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Curtiss was once one of the giants of American aviation. It built the fighters that fought the First World War, the racing seaplanes that set world records in the 1920s, and the P-40 Warhawks whose shark-mouthed noses became a symbol of the Second...
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