Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Un après-midi de juin 1988, devant des milliers de spectateurs venus assister à un meeting aérien, un Airbus A320 flambant neuf — l’avion de ligne le plus avancé au monde, pour son tout premier vol commercial — a effectué un passage lent et bas au-dessus d’un petit aérodrome français, avant de se fondre doucement dans les arbres….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Durant le dernier hiver de la guerre, alors que les chasseurs alliés mitraillaient les aérodromes allemands presque à leur guise, les ingénieurs de Heinkel se posèrent une question radicale : et si un chasseur n’avait besoin d’aucun aérodrome ? Leur réponse, élaborée entre 1944 et mars 1945, fut le Lerche….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Most water bombers are propeller aircraft, and for good reason: they fly low and slow over fires, scooping and dropping in tight mountain valleys. The Beriev Be-200 does it all on jet power. It skims a lake at nearly 220 km/h, swallows 12 tonnes of water in seconds,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that had failed was...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2024, a crimson-and-white flying boat the size of an airliner lifted off a lake on Vancouver Island for the last time. Tens of thousands of people lined the shore. Nine red Snowbirds jets slid into formation alongside her. And a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
A four-engine bomber the length of a swimming pool, painted brilliant white, rolls onto the runway. Its wings are stretched forward like a bird’s. Then four of the most powerful engines ever bolted to a warplane light their afterburners, and roughly 275 tonnes...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Look closely at the tail of the Spitfire and something is wrong — gloriously, deliberately wrong. Beside the familiar red-white-blue fin flash of the Royal Air Force sits a five-pointed communist red star. This is a British fighter, in British service, flying...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In January 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams sat down and wrote a letter to the White House. His plan to win the war was simple: strap tiny incendiary bombs to a million bats and drop them on Tokyo.It should have gone...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the middle of the Second World War, one of the most famous psychologists in America proposed a guidance system for bombs that used no radar, no gyroscopes, and no vacuum tubes. It used pigeons. Live ones. Riding inside the nose of the bomb.The astonishing part is...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
An extension to The Race for the Bomb, our focus series. Before the Enola Gay could take off from Tinian, the bomb had to reach Tinian — and the ship that carried it never came home. This is the story of USS Indianapolis: the secret cargo, the twelve minutes, the four...
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