Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On the afternoon of August 28, five grey shapes dropped out of the Atlantic murk and settled onto the runway at Łask, in central Poland. Tail numbers 3512, 3513, 3514, 3515 and 3516. With their wheels down, Poland’s fleet of fifth-generation...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story At 09:40 on the morning of 28 August 2026, a twin-tailed shape lifted off the runway at Linköping and climbed into a grey Swedish sky. Forty minutes later it was back on the ground — and the Gripen family had a new member. The two-seat...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It was nearly 27 metres of gleaming Soviet ambition — a needle-nosed, missile-armed interceptor built to swat American bombers out of the stratosphere. On 16 July 1956 the Lavochkin La-250 lifted off for the first time, rolled uncontrollably,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story In September 1939, Poland went to war in the air flying gull-winged fighters that belonged to another decade. Yet in a hangar at Okęcie sat the aircraft that was supposed to change all that: the PZL.50 Jastrząb — the Hawk — a sleek,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Look quickly and you might call it a Sabre. Look again and the differences pile up: a fatter fuselage, twin-wheel landing gear, cannon in the nose, and — strangest of all — no air intake at the front. This was the North American YF-93, a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It looked like nothing else in the sky: a stubby twin-engine fighter whose nose stopped dead at the wing, as if someone had sawn the front off a normal aeroplane. Test pilots loved it. Comic-book readers worshipped it. And the U.S. Navy, after flying...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story On 26 August 2026, seven Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawks were blessed and formally handed over at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City. With that quiet ceremony, the Philippine Air Force closed out one of the most consequential procurement runs in its history...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story The most advanced fighter America builds has a decidedly un-glamorous problem: it runs too hot. Every new sensor, jammer and processor bolted into the F-35 Lightning II throws off heat the jet was never designed to shed — and the fix has become...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Sweden has decided that its most modern transport helicopter is not worth keeping. From 2027, the Swedish Armed Forces will begin retiring nine NH90 battlefield transports — barely a decade after the last of them was delivered — and lean...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story A jet aeroplane hovering ten feet above a runway is doing something aerodynamically absurd. There is no airflow over the wings, so the control surfaces do nothing. The only things keeping it upright are puffs of compressed air from nozzles at the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On 30 May 1949, about 5,000 feet over Warwickshire, John Oliver Lancaster put an Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 into a shallow dive and the aircraft began to shake. Not a buffet — a violent asymmetric flutter of the elevons and wingtip fins, roughly one...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On the night of 11/12 June 1943, Major Werner Streib took a pre-production Heinkel He 219 up from Venlo against an RAF raid on Düsseldorf. Between 01:05 and 02:22 he claimed five bombers — four Halifaxes and a Lancaster, by the Smithsonian’s...
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