Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine Airlines has reportedly...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping while Airbus...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
La première fois qu'on l'entend, on le ressent avant même de le comprendre : un hurlement profond et ascendant qui vous remonte dans la nuque et vous fait vibrer la poitrine tandis qu'une vaste ombre triangulaire balaie le ciel. Pour des générations de spectateurs britanniques de meetings aériens, ce son signifiait une seule chose : le….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il s'agit peut-être du plus bel avion jamais mis en mer par l'US Navy : long, d'une élégance rare, doté d'une double dérive et conçu pour décoller d'un porte-avions à deux fois la vitesse du son. Le North American A-5 Vigilante semblait tout droit sorti d'une autre époque….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the first months of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi Zero was a nightmare. It could out-climb, out-turn and out-accelerate the stubby Grumman Wildcats the U.S. Navy sent against it, and American pilots who tried to fight it on its own terms — twisting, turning,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line — it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England — but because almost every ally in between refused to let the aircraft...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At a quarter to eight on the morning of 5 June 1967, Egyptian air-defence officers were changing shifts, the dawn patrol had landed, and hundreds of Soviet-built fighters sat parked in neat rows across eighteen airfields. Within roughly three hours, most of them were...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from Moscow toward a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air Wing 8 recovered at...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators fly so often it...
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