Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In the early 1960s, two American giants owned the jet age: Boeing’s 707 and the Douglas DC-8. Convair, a division of General Dynamics, decided it could not out-size them — so it tried to out-run them.The result was the Convair 990...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Doug White was having the worst week of his life. He, his wife Terri and their two daughters were flying home to Louisiana from Florida, where they had just buried his brother. It was Easter Sunday, 2009. White, a 56-year-old private pilot who had...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story At 08:47 on the morning of 27 December 1991, a nearly new SAS MD-81 lifted off from a frozen Stockholm-Arlanda. It had sat out the night in near-freezing air with cold fuel chilling its wings, and a layer of clear ice — invisible, glass-smooth...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. En 1942, Eddie Rickenbacker avait déjà échappé à la mort plus de fois que la plupart des hommes ne le font. Il était l'“ As des as ” américain de la Première Guerre mondiale, un ancien pilote des 500 Miles d'Indianapolis et le patron autoritaire d'Eastern Air Lines. Il….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 May 1988, a nearly new Boeing 737-300 was threading between thunderstorm cells on approach to New Orleans. In the left seat sat Captain Carlos Dárdano — twenty-nine years old, and flying with one eye, the other lost...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On paper, the Yakovlev Yak-38 looked like Moscow’s answer to the Harrier: a jet that could rise straight off a deck with no catapult, hover, and land vertically. In practice it was one of the most compromised combat aircraft of the Cold War.The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Before dawn on New Year’s Day 1945, while much of the Allied camp slept off its celebrations, hundreds of German fighters lifted off in near-total silence. No radios. Incomplete maps. Pilots who, in many cases, had been told only minutes earlier...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Il avait vingt et un ans, était le fils d'un mineur de cuivre de Phoenix, avec une allure de boxeur et une fâcheuse tendance à désobéir aux ordres. En septembre dernier, à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, le sous-lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. devint le chasseur de ballons le plus redouté….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Grumman built the F8F Bearcat around one brutal idea: take the biggest engine America had and wrap the smallest possible aeroplane around it. The result was less a fighter than an engine with a saddle — an 18-cylinder radial hauling a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Le matin du 21 septembre 1953, sur la base aérienne de Kimpo, un avion à réaction à ailes en flèche s'apprêtait à atterrir. Les pilotes le prirent pour un de leurs F-86 Sabre. Il s'agissait en réalité d'un MiG-15 de fabrication soviétique, arborant encore les étoiles rouges nord-coréennes….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On Christmas Eve 1944, American troops dug in near Liège heard something wrong in the sky. Not the familiar growl of piston engines, but a smooth, piercing roar. Sleek aircraft swept overhead, dropped their bombs, and simply accelerated away....
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