Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and “Frogfoot” by NATO...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Demandez à n'importe quel vétéran du Vietnam à quoi ressemblait le bruit de la guerre, et beaucoup vous donneront la même réponse : un bruit rythmé et saccadé, un « whop-whop-whop » qui résonnait au-dessus des arbres. C'était le bruit du Bell UH-1 – le Huey – et selon l'extrémité où l'on se trouvait….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator murmuring headings, its...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Un court vol intérieur entre Corpus Christi et Dallas/Fort Worth est une formalité. Pourtant, un vol d'American Airlines ce mois-ci a discrètement marqué l'histoire : il s'agissait du premier vol commercial de passagers aux États-Unis propulsé par eSAF, une technologie….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Somewhere over the North Atlantic on Sunday evening, a small object in a business-class seat pocket did what airlines now fear more than almost anything else: it began to smoke. The device was a passenger’s power bank. The aircraft was a SWISS Airbus A330-300...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Lundi matin, peu après l'aube, les sirènes d'alerte et le vrombissement des moteurs ont retenti dans une ville que la guerre avait presque totalement épargnée. Nijnekamsk se situe à environ 1 200 kilomètres (750 miles) du territoire ukrainien le plus proche, en plein cœur de la république russe du Tatarstan. En milieu de matinée….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect white cone up...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
When people picture wartime aircraft, they picture fighters and bombers. Almost no one pictures a helicopter — yet by 1942 Germany was flying a nimble little rotorcraft off the decks of warships, spotting submarines in the Baltic. It was the Flettner Fl 282...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the Fourth of July 1989, two American F-15 pilots on alert in the Netherlands were scrambled to intercept an intruder crossing into NATO airspace. What they found was a real Soviet fighter, deep over Western Europe — with no one flying it.It became one of the...
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