Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Just after dawn on October 25, 1944, lookouts on a cluster of small American ships off the island of Samar saw something that should not have been there: pagoda masts on the horizon. The most powerful surface fleet Japan could still put to sea — battleships led...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different plane entirely...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the technology of its...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 during a visit to...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 3 juillet 1950, à peine une semaine après le début de la guerre de Corée, le lieutenant de vaisseau Leonard Plog plaça son jet à ailes droites sur la queue d'un Yak-9 à hélice et pressa la détente. C'était la première victoire aérienne jamais remportée par un jet de l'US Navy, et elle appartenait à un petit appareil….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Demandez à n'importe quel vétéran du Vietnam à quoi ressemblait le bruit de la guerre, et beaucoup vous donneront la même réponse : un bruit rythmé et saccadé, un « whop-whop-whop » qui résonnait au-dessus des arbres. C'était le bruit du Bell UH-1 – le Huey – et selon l'extrémité où l'on se trouvait….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Thirteen minutes after leaving Birmingham on the morning of 10 June 1990, the pilots of British Airways Flight 5390 had loosened their shoulder straps and set breakfast on their laps. Then, with a bang like a bomb, the left cockpit windscreen tore away — and...
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