Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed when the aircraft...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the missiles know what...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Partagez cette histoire. Le jeudi 3 septembre 2026, vers sept heures du matin, dans le village de Probuzhdeniye, près d'Engels, dans la région de Saratov en Russie, un homme à moto, le visage dissimulé par un casque, a tiré deux coups de pistolet sur un militaire, puis….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story When Amy Johnson took off from Croydon on 5 May 1930 bound for Australia, she had held a pilot’s licence for ten months and had never flown further than from London to Hull. Her aircraft was a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth with an open...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story She would climb to around four thousand metres, roll the Stuka onto its back, and put it into a near-vertical dive to test the brakes and the sight she had helped design. Then she would do it again. On a good day, fifteen times. Melitta von...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story By the summer of 1944 the Fifteenth Air Force had lost 350 bombers over the Ploiesti oil fields, and a great many of the men who fell out of them came down in occupied Serbia. They were not captured. They were hidden — in barns, in hayricks, in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the night of 30 March 1944, RAF Bomber Command sent 795 heavy bombers to Nuremberg. Ninety-six of them never came home. In a single night, in a few hours over Germany, more than 500 young airmen were killed — the worst night the Command...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the morning of 21 March 1945, twenty de Havilland Mosquitos came in over Copenhagen at rooftop height, so low that Danes on the streets could see the crews’ faces. Their target was the Shellhus — the Gestapo’s headquarters in the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Late in the afternoon of April 18, 1943 — Palm Sunday — a wall of German transport planes crawled north-east across the Mediterranean at wavetop height, so low their propellers kicked spray off the swells. There were about ninety of them,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story A French-built fighter took on fuel from a Chinese tanker over Egypt this week — and in doing so quietly rewrote a small piece of the aerial map. It is, as far as anyone can tell, the first time a Chinese Y-20 tanker has been publicly documented...
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