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....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For forty years, aviation enthusiasts have chased a ghost. It has a name, a rumored shape, and a trail of strange evidence. What it does not have is a single confirmed photograph, a serial number, or an admission that it was ever built. The ghost is called Aurora, and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the darkest years of the Cold War, American engineers designed a weapon so appalling that many of the people building it were relieved when it was cancelled. It was a cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear reactor for an engine, and it was meant to fly for...
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
À l'automne 1942, le chasseur le plus étrange d'Amérique reposait sur le lit asséché d'un lac du désert de Mojave, dissimulé sous un mensonge. Chaque fois que l'appareil était stationné en plein air, les équipes au sol boulonnaient une fausse hélice en bois sur son nez, car la machine cachée sous ce camouflage n'avait aucune….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most modern combat aircraft are built to avoid getting hit. The Su-25 Frogfoot was built to get hit and keep flying. Squat, blunt-nosed and wrapped in armour, the Sukhoi Su-25 — called Grach (“Rook”) by its crews and “Frogfoot” by NATO...
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….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is past midnight over Saipan, the summer of 1944, and a Japanese bomber crew thinks the darkness is keeping them safe. It isn’t. Somewhere below and behind them, a big twin-boomed aircraft is sliding into position, its radar operator murmuring headings, its...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a brilliantly clear March morning in 1966, a BOAC Boeing 707 lifted off from Tokyo bound for Hong Kong, and its crew did something generous and entirely human: they turned toward Mount Fuji so their passengers could photograph Japan’s perfect white cone up...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
When people picture wartime aircraft, they picture fighters and bombers. Almost no one pictures a helicopter — yet by 1942 Germany was flying a nimble little rotorcraft off the decks of warships, spotting submarines in the Baltic. It was the Flettner Fl 282...
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
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
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