Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In December 1931, a cocky 21-year-old RAF pilot named Douglas Bader tried a low, showy roll in his biplane, clipped a wingtip on the grass, and crashed. Surgeons took his right leg above the knee that day, and his left below the knee months later. His...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. L'après-midi du 26 juillet 1959, le lieutenant-colonel des Marines William Rankin volait à 14 300 mètres d'altitude lorsque le moteur unique de son chasseur s'arrêta dans un grincement strident. Il leva les bras, tira sur les poignées d'éjection et se propulsa hors du cockpit.
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Le matin du 12 août 1944, un aviateur naval de 29 ans monta à bord d'un bombardier Liberator dépouillé de ses canons et rempli d'explosifs, d'une aile à l'autre. Il n'était pas obligé d'être là. Il avait accompli son tour de service et mérité son brevet….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At the height of the Battle of Britain, with his fighter pilots being blamed for the bombers falling out of the sky, a young German ace was asked by the head of the Luftwaffe what he needed to turn things around. Adolf Galland, cigar clenched in his...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The message came from Air Operations Command in Jakarta, and for the ninety-five men and women of Skadron Udara 15 it meant something none of them had done before: pack up five jets, cross the Arafura Sea, and go fly with the world.For the first time,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story At 02:19 on 21 November 1970, an American helicopter deliberately flew itself into the trees inside a North Vietnamese prison camp twenty-three miles from Hanoi. Its rotor blades chewed through forty-foot foliage and it came down hard in a courtyard...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the evening of 14 October 1973, a C-5A Galaxy touched down at Lod airport outside Tel Aviv carrying 97 tons of 105 mm howitzer shells. Roughly a hundred miles to the south-west, the largest tank battle since Kursk was being fought, and the Israeli...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The drone had already been shot down. That is the detail that makes this loss different from the others. On Saturday, in northern Iraq, a US service member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovered from a downed...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story In December 2011, an Air Zimbabwe Boeing 767 landed at London Gatwick and did not leave. It was impounded over unpaid debts, and with it went the last direct air link between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom — a route the airline had flown since April...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story The A Shau valley, 10 March 1966. A Special Forces camp is being overrun by two thousand North Vietnamese regulars. The hills either side rise fifteen hundred feet and the cloud base is at eight hundred, which means any aircraft coming to help has to...
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