Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The people of the Haslital have been asking a reasonable question since 2022: what will an F-35 actually sound like when it takes off from the valley they live in? The Swiss Air Force and armasuisse agreed to answer it the sensible way, by flying an F/A-18 and an F-35...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 18:51 on the evening of 8 September, a Boeing 737-8 registered YR-BGO touched down at Henri Coandă in Bucharest, having flown in directly from the United States. It is the first 737 MAX Tarom has ever operated, and the first in Romania. Boeing, Tarom and the lessor...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Russia stopped building the Tupolev Tu-95 in 1992 and scrapped the tooling three years later. That single fact is what makes the satellite imagery coming out of Engels-2 worth paying attention to. On the night of Friday 28 August, Ukraine’s SBU struck the strategic...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For most of a decade, France told itself a story about the 2040s in which the Rafale was a bridge to something else. That something else was FCAS, the Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System, and in June it broke apart. Which leaves Dassault with an aircraft...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Swiss crews meet GPS spoofing every day. Switzerland is nonetheless switching its airports away from the ground-based landing system that spoofing cannot touch, and doing it to save money. That plan has just started to unravel. The Tages-Anzeiger reported today that...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In 1968, for two months, Eastern Air Lines flew fare-paying passengers between cities in the north-eastern United States in a French military transport with four propellers all driven by the same shaft. The following year American Airlines tried the same aircraft, and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the 1981 Paris Air Show a small orange-and-white aircraft took off vertically like a helicopter, rotated its engines forward, flew past the crowd like an aeroplane, rotated them back, and stopped in mid-air to bow. The New York Times, not a publication given to...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is a pleasing symmetry in the pictures the Ukrainian presidential office released on Saturday. Twenty-one Ukrainian military pilots are in Canada learning to fly Western fighters. The aircraft they are learning on is a Czechoslovak jet trainer designed in the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of 15 February 1961 a Sabena Boeing 707 came out of a clear sky over Belgium, circled Brussels airport three times while its crew fought it, and fell into a field at Berg, less than two miles short of the runway. Seventy-two people on board were killed,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The whole system fits on two pickup trucks. That sentence, buried in an Airbus press release, is the reason the French armed forces have just ordered eight of these aircraft. On 10 September 2026 France’s Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate placed a follow-on...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most fighter contracts that make the news are about metal: airframes, engines, how many and how much. This one is about something you cannot photograph, and it may matter more than any of that. On 10 September 2026, Edgewing — the company actually building the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
There is a particular kind of corporate embarrassment that can only be photographed from an airport perimeter fence. At Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, a handful of nearly new Airbus A321XLRs are parked up with holes where their engines used to be. The engines have not...
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