Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On Tuesday afternoon in Dhaka, a government adviser stood up at the Secretariat and confirmed that a committee had finished drafting the agreement. Bangladesh intends to buy the Chengdu J-10.Twenty aircraft. A headline figure of $2.302 billion. And a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Buried in a routine American contract announcement on Monday was a single word that set the European defence press moving: Poland.The US Department of War confirmed that Boeing had been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For four years, one of the more entertaining puzzles in open-source intelligence has been a set of aircraft-shaped objects sitting on Chinese ramps. They looked a bit like the Chengdu J-20. They also looked a bit wrong. Analysts squinted at satellite...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Somebody at the Tailhook Association convention this past weekend was holding a camera when the U.S. Navy put a particular slide on the screen. On it: a pair of Castelion Blackbeard test articles hanging under the right wing of an F/A-18E/F Super...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Twelve years on, a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard is still missing. Not missing in the sense that nobody knows exactly where the wreck lies — missing in the sense that the largest and most expensive underwater search in history has now...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story The Bell 47 is the helicopter everyone can draw: a glass bubble, an open lattice tail, two men sitting in what looks like a goldfish bowl on skids. It is the machine in the opening credits of M*A*S*H, and for a generation it was simply what the word...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story At 11:24 on the morning of 14 August 2005, a Greek Air Force F-16 pilot pulled alongside a Boeing 737 orbiting quietly over the Aegean and looked into the cockpit. The first officer was slumped motionless in his seat. The captain’s seat was...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Twelve minutes after leaving Tokyo on the evening of 12 August 1985, the rear pressure bulkhead of a Boeing 747 gave way. The escaping air blew off most of the vertical stabiliser and severed all four hydraulic systems. The crew were left with an...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Two minutes and thirty-three seconds passed between the moment an Airbus A310 stopped doing what its crew believed it was doing, and the moment it hit a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau. Seventy-five people died. The story is usually told as a simple...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Five years ago this month, a US Marine Corps F-35B took off from a British aircraft carrier, landed on an American assault ship, took on fuel and weapons, and flew off again to attack a second set of targets. The Marine Corps called it the first time...
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