Share this story Imagine falling out of an airplane at 15,000 feet with no parachute. Now imagine landing back inside it. For one Royal Flying Corps gunner in 1918, this wasn’t a nightmare — it was just another Tuesday. Aviation has always been a realm where the...
Share this story South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in...
Share this story In April 1942, Soviet fighter pilot Alexey Maresyev was shot down behind enemy lines over the forests of Novgorod Oblast. What followed was one of the most extraordinary — and largely untold — stories of human endurance in the history of aviation....
Share this story On the afternoon of Friday, 26 October 2001, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Edward “Pete” Aldridge, stepped up to a podium in Washington. Three thousand kilometres away, Boeing chairman Phil Condit and his Joint Strike Fighter boss, Frank Statkus,...
Share this story It was a Friday afternoon at the Pentagon, 29 February 2008 — a leap day, fittingly, for a decision almost nobody saw coming. Air Force officials stepped before the press to name the winner of the KC-X tanker programme, 179 aircraft and roughly 35...
Share this story The desert air was still cool at Edwards Air Force Base on the morning of 27 August 1990 when Northrop chief test pilot Paul Metz taxied out in a machine that looked like nothing else on Earth. Charcoal grey, diamond-winged, its two tails canted...
Share this story On the morning of 25 January 1995, on the island of Andøya in Arctic Norway, a team of Norwegian and American scientists watched a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket climb away from its launcher and curve north-east over the sea towards...
Share this story Fifteen minutes past midnight, 26 September 1983. In a command bunker called Serpukhov-15, south-west of Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov is settled into the commander’s chair for a night shift he was not originally scheduled to work. In...
Share this story By the late afternoon of Saturday, 27 October 1962, the men of Soviet submarine B-59 had very little left to breathe. The boat had been at sea for almost four weeks, hiding from the US Navy in the warm water north of Cuba, and her batteries were...
Share this story Two signatures. 296 stealth fighters. $24.3 billion. In a single deal, the F-35 program locked in the largest batch of Lightning IIs it has ever agreed to build at once. The contract covers Lots 18 and 19 — production runs split evenly at 148 jets...
Boeing remporte le contrat F-47 NGAD : une nouvelle ère pour la puissance aérienne. Vendredi dernier, le président Trump a fait une annonce fracassante qui a secoué le monde militaro-industriel – au sens figuré, bien sûr ! Boeing est officiellement désigné pour concevoir et produire le F-47, présenté comme….
Pour commencer : qu’est-ce que le mur du son ? Le “ mur du son ” désigne le point où un objet se déplace à la vitesse du son, également appelée Mach 1. Le son se propage sous forme d’ondes de pression dans un milieu comme l’air, et sa vitesse dépend de facteurs tels que la température et….
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