Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Just after midnight on Sunday, the busiest travel weekend of the Canadian summer fell silent. Roughly 150 WestJet aircraft that should have been shuttling holidaymakers between Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and a long list of sun destinations stayed...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For decades Japan built warships bristling with missile cells and used them only to shoot things down. That just changed. On Jul. 29, 2026, the destroyer JS Chōkai fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into the Pacific — the first time a Japanese...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The cheapest weapon on a modern battlefield is a drone you can buy online. The U.S. Air Force has just answered it in Europe with one of the most futuristic: a laser. Quietly, and at locations it will not name, U.S. Air Forces in Europe has fielded...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Doug White was having the worst week of his life. He, his wife Terri and their two daughters were flying home to Louisiana from Florida, where they had just buried his brother. It was Easter Sunday, 2009. White, a 56-year-old private pilot who had...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two “fighter drones” for production. This week, the factories actually started building them — and one of them dropped a letter from its name.On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea’s border with the North picked up something they couldn’t identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On 29 July 2026, at Korea Aerospace Industries’ plant in Sacheon, South Korea did something only a handful of nations have ever managed: it declared its own supersonic fighter finished. The KF-21 Boramae — “young hawk” — is...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the...
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