Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Eric “Winkle” Brown flew more different types of aircraft than any human being who has ever lived — nearly five hundred of them, from Spitfires to jets to captured German rocket planes. And of all of them, the one he wrote about with the most...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
When the founder of Britain’s leading aviation magazine first laid eyes on the Royal Air Force’s newest bomber in 1936, he needed only five words. The fuselage was tall, deep and barely a yard wide, and it reminded him of a piece of luggage. The name stuck for the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
By 1952 the jet age had well and truly arrived. Swept-wing MiGs and Sabres were tearing across the skies of Korea at close to the speed of sound, and the propeller-driven fighter looked like a museum piece. Nobody told the Hawker Sea Fury. On a August morning over...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For a few months, the world’s cheapest big airline flew the world’s trendiest long-haul jet. It did not last. IndiGo — India’s low-cost giant, and the largest airline in the country by a country mile — is tearing up its damp-lease deal with Norway’s Norse...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the afternoon of 24 June 1994, a 250-ton bomber wheeled around the control tower at Fairchild Air Force Base in a bank no B-52 was ever meant to hold. The left wing kept dropping — past 60 degrees, past 90 — until the giant simply stopped flying. It...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty minutes out of Memphis, First Officer Jim Tucker heard a sound he had never heard on an aeroplane: a metallic ring, again and again. It was a claw hammer coming down on the skull of his flight engineer. In the next few seconds a man would try to murder all...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 24 novembre 1944, un bombardier, à huit kilomètres au-dessus de Tokyo, pointa son viseur sur l'usine de moteurs de Nakajima et vit ses bombes manquer leur cible d'un kilomètre. Non pas par manque de précision, mais parce qu'une force invisible avait saisi la cible en chute libre….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Demandez à la RAF quel chasseur elle appréciait le plus durant la dernière année de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et la plupart des gens répondront le Spitfire. Ils se tromperaient. L'avion que ses pilotes considéraient comme supérieur à tous les autres — plus rapide au sol qu'un Spitfire, plus redoutable contre les V-1, et….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Demandez à n'importe qui de citer le bombardier lourd britannique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il vous répondra l'Avro Lancaster, l'appareil des Dam Busters, vedette de tous les films et démonstrations aériennes. Presque personne ne mentionne le Handley Page Halifax. Pourtant, le Halifax a effectué des dizaines de….
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