Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
July was, by Airbus’s recent standards, a quiet month. The European planemaker handed over 67 aircraft to 39 customers — a step down from 89 in June and 81 in May. And yet, halfway-plus through 2026, Airbus is still comfortably in front.The running total...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For months the story ran the wrong way. Poland was going to scrap its last MiG-29 fighters rather than hand them to Ukraine, a drones-for-jets deal apparently dead in the water. On 7 August 2026 the narrative flipped.Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
France has made its move. On 6 August 2026, Dassault Aviation handed New Delhi a formal techno-commercial proposal for 114 Rafale fighters — the long-awaited answer to India’s Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender, and one of the largest single fighter...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. The Enola Gay needed a runway, and the runway needed an island. This is the story of Tinian — the Pacific speck that became, for one astonishing year, the largest airport on Earth. Sunset, Tinian, midsummer...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our ten-part focus series. Part 9 flew the atomic missions; this piece goes back three months earlier, into the room where a handful of men decided which cities would live and which would die — and why the city at the top of the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Imaginez-vous pilote de chasse, venant de vous éjecter au-dessus d'une mer froide et déchaînée, loin des côtes, avec l'ennemi en vue. Vous êtes seul dans les vagues – jusqu'à ce que vous entendiez des moteurs et qu'un gros hydravion pataud surgisse du ciel et se pose en pleine mer….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Certains avions sont laids mais efficaces. D'autres, très rares, sont beaux mais inutiles. Le Republic XF-12 Rainbow était de ceux-là : un appareil à l'aérodynamisme si pur qu'il semblait sculpté, et si parfaitement conçu pour une mission qu'au moment de son vol, il n'était plus adapté….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
En 1934, les Américains levèrent les yeux vers Miami et aperçurent un spectacle insolite : un avion volant sous ce qui ressemblait à un immense parasol de jardin. Il ne s’agissait ni d’une cascade ni d’un dessin animé. C’était le Nemeth Parasol, l’un des avions les plus étranges à avoir jamais quitté le sol américain….
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