Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Every couple of years a former RAF airfield in Hampshire becomes the centre of the aviation universe for five days. From July 20, it happens again — and the 2026 edition of the Farnborough International Airshow is shaping up to be the biggest in the event’s 78-year...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Au premier abord, ce petit avion semble avoir été assemblé avec des pièces détachées mal rangées. Il possède une aile à l'avant et une aile à l'arrière, une hélice à l'envers et un pilote perché tout en haut du nez. Il ressemble moins à un chasseur qu'à un….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Durant l'hiver 1946, la Grande-Bretagne était peut-être à six mois de devenir la première nation à franchir le mur du son. Dans un hangar gardé se trouvait un petit jet profilé, le Miles M.52, quasiment achevé : son pilote d'essai avait été choisi et ses essais supersoniques étaient programmés….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
By the summer of 1944, London was under siege from a weapon no one could see coming until it was too late. The V-1 flying bomb — the “doodlebug” — buzzed across the Channel by the hundred, and its droning pulsejet was a sound Londoners learned to dread. When the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 24 September 1958, a flight of Nationalist Chinese F-86 Sabres was climbing over the Taiwan Strait when a formation of Communist MiG-17s slid past — a little higher and, on paper, the better aircraft. Then the Sabres did something no fighter had ever...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
De temps à autre, un avion de chasse fait son apparition et s'impose si nettement dans sa catégorie que le débat s'arrête net. Le Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor est cet appareil. Il a surclassé un prototype rival, redéfini les attentes vis-à-vis des avions de chasse et est entré en service comme le plus performant….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Dawn over Kadena, and the concrete is already trembling. Two Pratt & Whitney turbofans spool up behind a jet the size of a small barn, the pilot walks the throttles into afterburner, and for a heartbeat the whole world is noise. Then the nose comes up — and keeps...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Somewhere over the Nevada high desert, a young American fighter pilot rolls into a turn and sees something that should not exist. A stubby, silver dart is sliding into formation off his wing — snub nose, sharp delta, a red star where a national insignia ought to be....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a submarine, and was built, in all seriousness, to stalk and kill American nuclear missile boats. It...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Autumn, 1933. On a grass airfield outside Kharkiv, a shape rolls out of its hangar that looks less like an aeroplane and more like a building that has decided to fly. Its wing stretches 53 metres from tip to tip — thick enough for a grown man to walk inside it and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The first thing the crowd at Zhukovsky hears is the noise; the second thing it notices is that something is badly wrong with the wings. A dark, whale-nosed fighter comes howling low across the airfield, and its wings — unmistakably, impossibly — appear to have been...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest in history, and...
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