Share this story Picture a beer keg with wings. Now bolt a nine-cylinder radial to the front, wedge a nervous pilot in behind it, and paint a red star on the side. Congratulations: you have just imagined the Polikarpov I-16, the stubbiest, twitchiest, most quietly...
Share this story 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...
Share this story 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...
Share this story Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply...
Partagez cet article. La plupart des avions de chasse sont conçus pour effectuer des virages serrés. Le MiG-31 Foxhound, lui, a été conçu pour une mission bien plus simple et bien plus terrifiante : voler très vite en ligne droite et attraper des cibles inaccessibles aux autres appareils. Près d’un demi-siècle après son premier vol….
Partagez cette histoire. Par une douce nuit d'été 1915, les Londoniens levèrent les yeux de leurs rues plongées dans l'obscurité et entendirent un son jamais entendu auparavant : le vrombissement régulier de moteurs surgissant des ténèbres, haut dans le ciel. Quelques instants plus tard, des bombes commencèrent à tomber….
Partagez cette histoire. Dans la nuit du 17 août 1943, Wernher von Braun, ingénieur en aérospatiale, rentra à son logement sur une portion tranquille de la côte baltique allemande et leva les yeux. La pleine lune brillait au-dessus de Peenemünde, ville de recherche secrète. Puis les premières fusées éclairantes….
Share this story The world’s biggest passenger jet is about to make a lot of surprise appearances, and a lot of surprise disappearances. This September, Emirates is reshuffling a dozen of its Airbus A380 routes, with several long-haul services temporarily...
Share this story Long Beach harbor, the morning of 2 November 1947, smelled of salt, diesel and quiet disappointment. Bobbing in the channel was the largest flying machine humanity had ever bolted together: a wooden flying boat the length of two-thirds of a football...
Share this story On the morning of 15 April 1969, a lumbering four-engine reconnaissance aircraft climbed away from a Japanese airfield on a mission its crew had flown, in one form or another, roughly 200 times in three months without incident. It was routine. It was...
Share this story On the morning of 20 February 1959, a factory outside Toronto was building the most advanced interceptor in the Western world. By that afternoon it was building nothing at all. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had risen in the House of Commons and...
Share this story Alaska Airlines has spent barely sixteen months turning itself from a West Coast workhorse into a transatlantic contender, and it is not slowing down. On 20 August 2026 the Seattle carrier confirmed two new European destinations: Paris and Athens,...
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