Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The General Electric J85 first ran on a test stand in 1956. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had not yet launched Sputnik. Seventy years later, the same engine — virtually unchanged in its core architecture — is being kept alive by more than $178 million in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Of all the strange aircraft the United States built during the Second World War — and there were many — none was stranger, on paper or in person, than the Northrop XP-79. The XP-79 has gone down in history as a manned missile. Its mission, so the famous story goes,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The standard British Quick Reaction Alert intercept, in the Cold War era, went something like this. NATO radar would call out an unidentified contact entering the United Kingdom Air Defence Region. Two RAF Phantom FGR.2s, held at ten minutes’ readiness around...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine knows it is...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le vendredi 26 octobre 2001 après-midi, Edward “ Pete ” Aldridge, responsable des acquisitions au Pentagone, prit la parole à Washington. À trois mille kilomètres de là, Phil Condit, président de Boeing, et Frank Statkus, responsable du programme Joint Strike Fighter, étaient réunis autour d'un….
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