Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has ever managed to fly...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak turned to meet two...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Russian sources say the Su-35S has taken on a new and demanding job over Ukraine: hunting the radars that guide enemy air defences. Footage circulated on 22 August 2026 purports to show an Su-35 launching a Kh-31PM anti-radiation missile at a Ukrainian air-defence...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
India’s most ambitious home-built fighter has drawn sharp criticism from an unlikely quarter: one of the officers who helped run the air force until weeks ago. Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, who stepped down as the Indian Air Force’s Vice Chief less than two...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For the first time, China has flown one of its heavyweight fighters to Africa. A formation of Shenyang J-16 strike jets touched down at an Egyptian air base early on 21 August 2026, opening the second edition of the “Eagles of Civilization” joint exercise...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
United Airlines is about to open a box it has been rattling for weeks. On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the carrier plans to roll out its first Airbus A321XLR at a hangar event in Newark and, alongside the jet, announce a batch of new international routes for 2027. The hub...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Approchez-vous d'un Antonov An-22 au moment où ses moteurs démarrent et vous ne vous contenterez pas de l'entendre, vous le ressentirez. Quatre des turbopropulseurs les plus puissants jamais construits font tourner huit hélices gigantesques, chaque pale décrivant un cercle plus haut qu'une maison, et le son est un grondement profond et déchirant….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Le 21 mars 1999, deux hommes épuisés ont posé un immense ballon argenté sur le désert égyptien et sont entrés dans l'histoire. Bertrand Piccard et Brian Jones venaient de réaliser ce que les pionniers avaient tenté, en vain, pendant des décennies : faire le tour du monde en avion….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Pas de moteur. Pas de kérosène. Pas de fusée. Juste un planeur blanc et élancé, ses longues ailes se nourrissant de courants ascendants invisibles, s'élevant plus haut qu'un avion espion U-2 dans le noir glacial de la stratosphère. En 2018, le planeur Perlan 2, sans moteur, a atteint 23 200 mètres d'altitude….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a funhouse mirror, and it...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems cleverer, its safety...
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