Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In 1911, flying across the United States was widely considered impossible. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst put money on it anyway, offering $50,000 to the first pilot to cross the country by air in 30 days or less. The men best equipped...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Somewhere under the muddy shallows of Wassaw Sound, off the coast of Georgia, sits a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb. The United States Air Force dropped it there in 1958, searched for ten weeks, gave up, and has left it alone ever since. It is one of a...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Six weeks ago, a B-52 Stratofortress carrying the U.S. Air Force’s brand-new radar rolled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, lifted off, and crashed. All eight crew were killed. The single jet fitted with the upgrade the entire bomber...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article. Son nom vient d'un son. La loi BRRRRT — oui, vraiment — est la dernière tentative du Congrès pour maintenir en service les A-10 Thunderbolt II, et elle souhaite un nombre d'appareils en vol supérieur à celui que l'armée de l'air est disposée à maintenir. Le représentant Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.)...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cet article : Un avion de chasse russe de cinquième génération s'est écrasé à l'ouest de Moscou le 23 juillet. Le pilote s'est éjecté et a survécu ; l'appareil a été détruit. Les médias russes ont identifié l'avion comme étant un Sukhoi Su-57, le plus récent chasseur furtif du pays. Le ministère de la Défense a confirmé que….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Here is a cheap way to terrify a naval planner: take an ordinary cargo plane, roll a pallet of cruise missiles out the back, and let them fly themselves to the target. The US Air Force has been perfecting that trick for years under the name Rapid...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Hunting a submarine is a team sport. This year, at the world’s largest naval exercise, the team stopped stopping at national borders — and started sharing the same aircraft.For the first time at RIMPAC, the U.S. Navy is flying mixed...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The Philippines is doubling down on the little jet that guards its skies — and this time it is buying the version that finally bites back at range.The Philippine Air Force has confirmed that its next 12 FA-50 fighters remain on schedule, with...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Ten nights in, the pattern has become grimly familiar. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. Eastern on 20 July, U.S. Central Command announced it had finished another round of strikes on Iran — the tenth consecutive night — hitting military command...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Modern air defense has a money problem, and everybody knows it. A single Patriot shot can cost more than the drone it swats down, and in a war where the incoming threats are cheap and endless, the math eventually breaks the defender, not the attacker....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At 5:55 on the evening of Friday 4 October 1918, a small biplane with cardboard wings and a papier-mâché body lifted off a wheeled dolly running down a portable track near Dayton, Ohio. There was nobody aboard and nobody controlling it. It was...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The test subject was a pig. It was chosen because its nervous system is close enough to a human’s for the results to mean something, and because nobody was quite willing to find out the other way first. The pig was harnessed to a nylon line, a...
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