Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At ten to nine on a clear Tuesday morning, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Froling lifted off from Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Michigan, and turned north. The trees had not started to change yet. It was, by every measure available to him at that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On an August night over North Dakota, a four-engine transport aircraft crosses the city of Minot at about the height of a tall office block, in the dark, with two steel booms poking out of the doors where paratroopers normally jump. It is not delivering anything. It...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The white jet with the blue-and-yellow tail sat on the apron at Chișinău on Tuesday afternoon with nowhere to go. Volodymyr Zelensky was due in Oslo that evening for the funeral of King Harald V, a state occasion with more than 150 inbound flights and a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The story usually goes like this. Germany built a wooden night fighter to match the de Havilland Mosquito. It was fast and it worked. Then the RAF bombed the single factory making the special glue that held it together, the substitute adhesive was corrosive, the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Gander sits in the middle of Newfoundland, in spruce and bog, a long way from anywhere. In 2001 fewer than ten thousand people lived there. Its airport had four runways built for a different era, when piston airliners needed to stop for fuel before crossing the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The plan was to take off at 8:15 in the morning, roughly the minute United 175 left Boston Logan, and to be over United’s Flight Training Center at 9:03, the exact minute that aircraft struck the South Tower. A Boeing 777 in United colours, escorted by four F-16...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 20 May 2023, in a hotel ballroom in Reno, a 75-year-old man finished telling a story he had told several hundred times, stepped away from the lectern, and collapsed. There were doctors in the audience. He died at the hospital that night. Brian Shul had spent thirty...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On 19 February 1928, a 20-year-old German woman climbed into the cockpit of a Junkers F.13 named Kiek in die Welt — Berlin dialect for “look in the world” — and flew it for Lufthansa. She is generally credited as the first woman anywhere hired...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of 20 April 1933, in the Tanezrouft, Bill Lancaster took out a fuel card and wrote what he knew would be his last message. He had been down in the Sahara for eight days. He had no water left. Exactly one year earlier, to the day, a man called Haden...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Star Alliance has 25-odd member airlines and access to more than a thousand airport lounges around the world. It owns six of them. Six, in twenty-nine years: Los Angeles, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Buenos Aires Ezeiza, Rio de Janeiro Galeão,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
In November 2024, the United States sent two B-52H bombers to fly over the Bahrain International Airshow. One of them then parked on the static display, the first time a B-52 had done so at Sakhir. Nobody pretended it was a routine appearance. It was a message to...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 23:34:49 on the night of 1 July 2002, the collision avoidance system aboard a Tupolev Tu-154M over southern Germany told its crew to climb. Seconds later the air traffic controller told them to descend. They descended. On the Boeing 757 converging with them, the...
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