Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Le 21 mars 1999, deux hommes épuisés ont posé un immense ballon argenté sur le désert égyptien et sont entrés dans l'histoire. Bertrand Piccard et Brian Jones venaient de réaliser ce que les pionniers avaient tenté, en vain, pendant des décennies : faire le tour du monde en avion….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Bulgaria has spent years trying to drag its air force into the NATO era, and it has just been handed some unwelcome news. The second batch of eight brand-new F-16 Block 70 fighters, once promised by the end of 2027, may not arrive until 2030. Lockheed Martin has told...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Aug. 21, 2026, at Malmen Air Base in Sweden, Saab chose the Swedish Air Force’s 100th birthday to pull the cover off its vision of the next one hundred years. Standing on the floor was a full-scale mock-up of a tailless, stealthy, supersonic drone, an...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For the first time, one of the smallest and cheapest fighters in Europe has reached far beyond the horizon. On Aug. 21, 2026, a Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen C released a live Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile over the Vidsel Test Range in Norrbotten, in the Arctic...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to confirm what much of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Aer Lingus began 2026 promising its largest-ever transatlantic schedule. It will end the year having quietly dismantled five of its US routes, a retreat that says as much about the economics of the North Atlantic as it does about one Irish carrier. The reset spans...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It looked like a beer barrel with wings, and the Swedes said so themselves — they called it Flygande Tunnan, the “Flying Barrel.” But behind that comical shape hid a serious pioneer: the first swept-wing fighter to enter squadron service anywhere in...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Tuesday, 18 August 2026, a very unusual crowd gathered in the sky over northern Poland and the Baltic — and every serious flight-tracker in Europe stopped to watch. In a large, U.S.-led NATO air exercise, a dense package of allied aircraft flew combat-strike,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Gulf’s low-cost giant is about to do something low-cost carriers are not supposed to do: fly a narrowbody, non-stop, five and a half hours to the heart of Europe — every single day. On 19 August 2026, Air Arabia announced a new daily service between...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 10,000 metres somewhere between Frankfurt and Rome, Jens Ritter reached up and switched on the internet. The gesture, aboard an Airbus A320neo named “November Mike,” marked the first Lufthansa passenger flight flying with Wi-Fi powered by Starlink...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The number barely moved, and that is precisely the point. France booked €21.24 billion in new arms-export orders in 2025, its Ministry of the Armed Forces told Parliament in the annual report published on 13 August. A shade below 2024’s €21.59 billion,...
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