Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le plus gros avion jamais construit par les puissances de l'Axe n'était ni un bombardier ni un avion de transport, mais un hydravion de la taille d'un petit navire, propulsé dans les airs par six moteurs par une entreprise qui construisait habituellement des paquebots. Et lorsqu'un pilote de chasse américain finit par le couler….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 30 avril 1958, un rutilant quadriréacteur sortait d'un hangar à Dresde sous les acclamations. Baptisé 152, il était censé annoncer l'arrivée de l'Allemagne de l'Est sur la scène de la construction d'avions de ligne modernes – une réponse socialiste au Comet et au….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Un avion furtif qui emporte ses bombes sous les ailes n'est pas vraiment furtif. Tout l'intérêt d'une silhouette discrète est anéanti dès lors qu'on y fixe des éléments métalliques anguleux. C'est pourquoi l'étape franchie par Baykar le 30 juillet est si importante….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On Christmas Eve 1944, American troops dug in near Liège heard something wrong in the sky. Not the familiar growl of piston engines, but a smooth, piercing roar. Sleek aircraft swept overhead, dropped their bombs, and simply accelerated away. No Allied fighter...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 7 August 1945 — the day after Hiroshima — a small, silver twin-jet lifted off the runway at Kisarazu Naval Air Base. For about twenty minutes, Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka flew Japan’s first jet aircraft, the Nakajima Kikka,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is one of the Second World War’s most durable legends: that in January 1944 a giant six-engined German bomber took off from occupied France, crossed the Atlantic, flew to within sight of Manhattan, photographed the skyline, and slipped home again undetected —...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
By 1944, Germany’s bomber fleets were spent, and the V-1 flying bomb — the “buzz bomb” — was terrorising London with one glaring flaw: it could miss a target the size of Greater London entirely. Someone proposed a brutally simple fix for the accuracy...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1939 the U.S. Army Air Corps put out a request for something deliberately radical — a fighter that broke the rules of how a fighter should be built. Vultee’s answer was the XP-54: a twin-boom machine with an inverted gull wing, the engine and propeller...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 6 July 2026, British Airways flight BA919 from Düsseldorf was on its initial approach to London Heathrow’s Runway 27L when the aircraft, an Airbus A320-232 registered G-EUUN, lost a piece of information most passengers never think about: reliable airspeed. An...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aircraft impress by their cleverness. The Tupolev Tu-160 impresses first by its sheer dimensions. At 54.1 metres (177 ft 6 in) it is longer than a Boeing B-52, and when its wings are spread it measures 55.7 metres (182 ft 9 in) from tip to tip. Painted in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Few aircraft announce themselves before they are seen. The Tupolev Tu-95, known to NATO as the “Bear,” is one of them. It is a large, four-engine turboprop strategic bomber, and yet it cruises at speeds normally reserved for jets. That contradiction, a...
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