Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On the afternoon of 1 November 2011, a Boeing 767 slid down a runway at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport on its belly, spraying sparks and foam, with 231 people aboard and not a single wheel beneath it. When it stopped, everyone walked away. Some...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The story is irresistible: in the depths of the Second World War, a colossal six-engine German bomber slips across the Atlantic, flies to within sight of the Manhattan skyline, photographs Long Island, and turns for home before America ever knows it...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It was, by common consent, one of the most beautiful fighters ever built, and one of the most complete. Bigger, faster and longer-legged than the Mirage 2000 it grew from, the Dassault Mirage 4000 was France’s bid to build a true heavyweight, a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For three days in July, something kept flying over the most sensitive fighter base in Australia, and nobody could say what, or whose. Between July 11 and 13, multiple unidentified drones slipped into restricted airspace above RAAF Base Williamtown in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The number landed like a dropped bomb: roughly 45 MQ-9 Reapers gone, about a quarter of the entire fleet, at a cost the Pentagon puts north of $1.3 billion for that one weapon system alone. That is the tally the Washington Post reported on August 13,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Long before the Tomahawk, and years before Polaris let a submarine fire a nuclear missile from beneath the waves, America’s first seagoing deterrent worked in the most nerve-wracking way imaginable. To shoot, the submarine had to surface in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea —...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story South Korea has built its own stealth-shaped fighter. Now it wants its own long reach to go with it. On August 12, Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding at KAI’s Sacheon headquarters to jointly develop...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Nine little red jets, wingtips almost touching, trailing white smoke across a summer sky. For generations of Canadians that image is the air show. After the 2026 season, it changes forever: the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutor, the tiny jet...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For a week in mid-August, the skies over Selangor turned into a laboratory of contrasts: French delta-wing fighters flown by Indian pilots, sparring with Russian-built Flankers and American Hornets in Malaysian colours. Exercise Udara Shakti 2026 put...
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