Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 17 mai 1935, celui qui écrirait plus tard Le Petit Prince monta à bord du plus grand avion du monde. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, en reportage pour un journal français à Moscou, fut le seul étranger autorisé à bord du Tupolev ANT-20 “ Maxim Gorki ”….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Prenez une bombe volante V-1 — le missile de croisière sans pilote qui a terrorisé Londres en 1944 — et découpez un petit trou dans le fuselage, juste devant le moteur. Installez-y un siège en contreplaqué, un manche à balai et quelques instruments de base. Maintenant, placez-y un jeune homme….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
En 1942, Eddie Rickenbacker avait déjà échappé à la mort plus de fois que la plupart des hommes ne le font. Il était l'“ As des as ” américain de la Première Guerre mondiale, ancien pilote des 500 Miles d'Indianapolis et le patron autoritaire d'Eastern Air Lines. Il était alors au début de sa carrière….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
He was twenty-one, a copper miner’s son from Phoenix with a boxer’s swagger and a habit of ignoring orders. In the last September of the First World War, Second Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. turned himself into the most feared balloon-hunter in the skies over...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 21 September 1953, a flight line at Kimpo Air Base watched a swept-wing jet swing onto the approach and took it for one of their own F-86 Sabres. It wasn’t. It was a Soviet-built MiG-15, still wearing North Korean red stars, flown by a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was the most meticulously rehearsed rescue mission in modern US military history — and it saved nobody. In the pre-dawn dark of 21 November 1970, a joint Army–Air Force strike force punched 23 miles into North Vietnam, straight past Hanoi’s...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
He was 31 years old — ancient by fighter-pilot standards — which is how a hard-drinking, twice-divorced Marine named Gregory Boyington got the nickname “Pappy.” He was also, by 1943, something close to washed up: a former Flying Tiger with a reputation for...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was a little before nine on the night of 18 April 1995, and Captain Brian Udell was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle out over the black Atlantic off North Carolina. Beside him sat his weapons systems officer, Captain Dennis White. It was routine training — four jets...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s parliament approved the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture a field in occupied France. It is a little after midnight, and there is a full moon riding above the poplars. Three people stand in the wet grass, holding bicycle lamps, hearts going like drums. They are listening. And then they hear it: a single engine, far...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 15 July 1942, eight American warplanes went hunting for a break in the weather over the North Atlantic and found the roof of the world instead. They had left Greenland at first light, bound for Iceland and then the war in Europe, but a wall of cloud...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no landmarks — bordered...
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