Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For forty years, aviation enthusiasts have chased a ghost. It has a name, a rumored shape, and a trail of strange evidence. What it does not have is a single confirmed photograph, a serial number, or an admission that it was ever built. The ghost is called Aurora, and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the darkest years of the Cold War, American engineers designed a weapon so appalling that many of the people building it were relieved when it was cancelled. It was a cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear reactor for an engine, and it was meant to fly for...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On the morning of August 14, 2026, NATO fighter jets on Baltic Air Policing duty scrambled over eastern Latvia and shot down a drone that had crossed into the alliance’s airspace. The Latvian military said the aircraft had strayed into the country as a result of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
India has just fired the starting gun on one of the biggest military aircraft competitions in the world. On August 12, 2026, its Defence Ministry issued a formal request for proposals for sixty new medium transport aircraft, opening a contest worth roughly one...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When Air Force One lifted off from Ankara after the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, the whole world assumed it knew who was on board. The world was wrong. According to a Washington Post investigation revealed on August 10, President Trump publicly boarded the big...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A routine flight over central Texas ended in tragedy on August 12, 2026, when a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crashed near the town of Salado, killing both crew members aboard. The helicopter came down at around 1:30 in the afternoon, and the wreckage sparked a grass fire...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 during a visit to...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Chinese state television does not show new tactics by accident. So when footage aired on August 12, 2026 of a Z-19 attack helicopter flying in tight formation with a cluster of reconnaissance-strike drones, it was a message as much as a training clip. It appears to be...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Most cargo aircraft need three things the battlefield rarely offers: a runway, a pilot, and a ground crew to load them. Elroy Air’s Chaparral needs none of them. On August 12, 2026, the California company demonstrated new unattended delivery modes for the U.S....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In a war over the Pacific, the side that sees first usually shoots first. Distances are enormous, the sky is empty, and a threat can appear from beyond the curve of the Earth long before any ship or ground radar notices. That is why a report on August 13, 2026 caught...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For eight months, one of American Airlines’ biggest jets sat in a Hong Kong hangar with its interior torn out. On August 13, 2026, it flew home to Dallas wearing something the airline has been promising for years: a proper business-class suite with a door. The...
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