Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Picture grey water somewhere off the Alaskan coast in April 1924, fog sitting on it like a wet blanket. Four wooden biplanes on pontoons, engines hammering at a frequency that rattles your fillings, wallowing towards a horizon nobody in history has...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story She was small, blonde and twenty-one, and she kept flowers in the cockpit. Not as a joke, not for a photograph — for herself. Somewhere over the churned earth of the Mius Front, in a Yak-1 with a pale lily painted near the nose, Lydia Litvyak...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Stand near an Antonov An-22 as it runs up its engines and you do not just hear it, you feel it. Four of the most powerful turboprop engines ever built spin eight enormous propellers, each blade sweeping a circle taller than a house, and the sound is a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On 21 March 1999, two exhausted men brought a towering silver balloon down onto the Egyptian desert and stepped into the history books. Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones had just done what pioneers had tried and failed to do for decades: fly all the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story No engine. No jet fuel. No rocket. Just a slender white sailplane, its long wings feeding on invisible rivers of rising air, climbing higher than a U-2 spy plane into the freezing black of the stratosphere. In 2018, the engineless Perlan 2 glider...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Boeing took its most famous creation, the mighty 747 “Jumbo Jet,” and did something almost sacrilegious: it sawed nearly 50 feet out of the middle. The result was a stubby, oddly proportioned jumbo that looked like a 747 caught in a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story By almost every technical measure, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the finest airliner of its generation. It could fly an approach and land itself in thick fog when rivals still needed a pilot’s hands. Its ride was smoother, its systems...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Look at an old airport photo from the 1970s and you will see it everywhere: a sleek jet with a tall T-tail and three engines clustered around its rear like the fletching on an arrow. This was the Boeing 727, and for a whole generation it was simply...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story On a summer morning in 2024, thousands of people lined the shores of Vancouver Island to say goodbye to a 79-year-old giant. The Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat still in the air anywhere in the world, lifted off the water one last time, escorted...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cet article. La plupart des avions de chasse sont conçus pour effectuer des virages serrés. Le MiG-31 Foxhound, lui, a été conçu pour une mission bien plus simple et bien plus terrifiante : voler très vite en ligne droite et attraper des cibles inaccessibles aux autres appareils. Près d’un demi-siècle après son premier vol….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Durant l'été 1940, les pilotes de chasse de la RAF, pourtant en infériorité numérique, se retrouvaient invariablement au bon endroit pour affronter la Luftwaffe. Pour les Allemands, cela ressemblait à une chance incroyable. Il n'en était rien. Le long des côtes britanniques se dressait une ligne de….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Par une douce nuit d'été 1915, les Londoniens levèrent les yeux de leurs rues plongées dans l'obscurité et entendirent un son jamais entendu auparavant : le vrombissement régulier de moteurs surgissant des ténèbres, haut dans le ciel. Quelques instants plus tard, des bombes commencèrent à tomber….
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