Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The footage is grey and silent. A drone’s electro-optical camera holds a small boat in its crosshairs somewhere in the middle of the Black Sea; a laser spot blooms on the hull; the picture shudders. To anyone who lived through the spring of 2022, the spartan...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline trimmed in yellow that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pull the throttle into afterburner and the jet that climbs away from the crowd is scarlet and white, the colours of the Danish flag wrapped around a screaming F-16. For two seasons, E-006 — the “Dannebrog” jet — has been the star of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On a grey June morning at the ILA Berlin air show, the most ambitious warplane Europe never built quietly ceased to exist. The Future Combat Air System — FCAS, or SCAF to the French — was meant to give France, Germany and Spain a sixth-generation fighter...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 3 June 1973, an enormous crowd packs the edges of Le Bourget airfield north of Paris, faces turned up to watch the star of the air show: the Soviet Union’s supersonic airliner, the Tupolev Tu-144. Its pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, has reportedly...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When you buy a front-line fighter, you also have to solve a quieter problem: how to train the pilots who will fly it. On 16 June 2026, Canada took a major step toward an answer — and the jet it chose is Italian. On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
High over the Mediterranean on 1 June 2026, a French Rafale pushed past the speed of sound and let a missile go. The moment of separation — missile leaving the rail of a jet travelling faster than sound — is one of the most violent things a weapon can be...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the flat plains of Çorlu in north-western Turkey this spring, a jet trainer and a tailless black drone flew in tight formation. Nothing unusual in that — except that no one was flying the drone. The pilot doing the commanding sat in the other aircraft entirely,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des années, la course à la construction d“” ailiers robots » — des avions sans pilote combattant aux côtés de pilotes humains — semblait être une affaire américano-australienne. En une seule semaine de juin, l’Europe a affirmé sa présence. Au salon aéronautique ILA de Berlin, deux acteurs européens aux profils très différents se sont distingués….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Au premier abord, on dirait le jouet d'un riche : un jet d'affaires Bombardier élégant, du genre de ceux qui transportent les dirigeants entre les capitales. Puis on remarque les protubérances. Une longue lame qui parcourt son fuselage, des renflements sous le ventre, un carénage qui coiffe la queue — et soudain….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Le matin du 2 juin, un avion à réaction vert pâle, recouvert d'une couche d'apprêt, décolla de Toulouse et s'éleva à plus de 12 500 mètres d'altitude au-dessus du sud de la France. Il ne transportait aucun passager, seulement des instruments de test et un équipage Airbus trié sur le volet. Il portait également un titre : celui de l'avion ayant la plus longue portée….
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