Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture the Philippine Sea at mid-morning on 19 June 1944. The water is glassy, the horizon hazed with heat, and 25,000 feet up a Grumman Hellcat pilot is watching a stain spread across the sky to the west. It is not weather. It is aircraft — dozens, then...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For the crowd gathered at Old Warden on the evening of 15 August, it was meant to be the gentlest of spectacles: vintage aeroplanes flying to a live orchestra as the light softened, the Shuttleworth Collection’s famous “Flying Proms”. Then one of the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the 1930s, the most civilised way to cross a continent was aboard a vast, slow, four-engined biplane that looked like it belonged to the age of the Wright Brothers, and travelled at roughly the speed of a modern express train. The Handley Page HP.42 was the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Some aircraft look powerful. A few look beautiful. The Scaled Composites Proteus looks impossible, a spindly, insect-like machine of twin booms, stalky tandem wings and a slender pod, apparently held together by optimism. It seems far too fragile to fly. And yet this...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Seventy-four years ago today, on 16 August 1952, a large and beautiful British airliner lifted off from Filton for the first time. Passengers who later flew in it swore it was the smoothest, quietest airliner they had ever experienced, so hushed that it earned an...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Before there was a Channel Tunnel, and before roll-on, roll-off ferries could swallow a hundred cars at a time, there was a stranger, more glamorous way to take your car to France: you drove it into the nose of an aeroplane. The aircraft that did the swallowing was...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
For 41 years, the record for the fastest subsonic airliner crossing of the Atlantic belonged not to a Boeing or a Douglas, but to a graceful British jet with four engines bunched at its tail. The Vickers VC10 did London to New York in 5 hours and 1 minute, and nothing...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Imagine boarding a transatlantic flight, settling into your seat, and then, somewhere over the ocean, walking down a spiral staircase to a cocktail lounge for a drink and a hand of cards. That was not a fantasy in 1950. That was a Tuesday aboard the Boeing 377...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the mid-1980s, Beechcraft decided to leap a generation ahead of everyone else. It teamed up with Burt Rutan, the most imaginative aircraft designer alive, and built a business aeroplane that looked like it had flown in from the next century: an all-carbon-fibre...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 1 November 2011, a Boeing 767 slid down a runway at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport on its belly, spraying sparks and foam, with 231 people aboard and not a single wheel beneath it. When it stopped, everyone walked away. Some passengers did not even...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Long before the Tomahawk, and years before Polaris let a submarine fire a nuclear missile from beneath the waves, America’s first seagoing deterrent worked in the most nerve-wracking way imaginable. To shoot, the submarine had to surface in enemy waters, roll a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Nine little red jets, wingtips almost touching, trailing white smoke across a summer sky. For generations of Canadians that image is the air show. After the 2026 season, it changes forever: the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutor, the tiny jet they have flown...
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