Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the late 1930s the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor was, briefly, the most modern airliner in the sky: a clean, four-engined monoplane that could cross an ocean without stopping. Within three years the same graceful airframe was ranging far out over the Atlantic with bombs...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke — not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
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 ever managed to fly...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 turned to meet two...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Approchez-vous d'un Antonov An-22 au moment où ses moteurs démarrent et vous ne vous contenterez pas de l'entendre, vous le ressentirez. Quatre des turbopropulseurs les plus puissants jamais construits font tourner huit hélices gigantesques, chaque pale décrivant un cercle plus haut qu'une maison, et le son est un grondement profond et déchirant….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Le 21 mars 1999, deux hommes épuisés ont posé un immense ballon argenté sur le désert égyptien et sont entrés dans l'histoire. Bertrand Piccard et Brian Jones venaient de réaliser ce que les pionniers avaient tenté, en vain, pendant des décennies : faire le tour du monde en avion….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Pas de moteur. Pas de kérosène. Pas de fusée. Juste un planeur blanc et élancé, ses longues ailes se nourrissant de courants ascendants invisibles, s'élevant plus haut qu'un avion espion U-2 dans le noir glacial de la stratosphère. En 2018, le planeur Perlan 2, sans moteur, a atteint 23 200 mètres d'altitude….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
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 funhouse mirror, and it...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
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 cleverer, its safety...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
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 what “an...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
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 by the Canadian...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most fighter jets are built to twist and turn. The MiG-31 Foxhound was built to do something far simpler and far more frightening: go very fast, in a straight line, and catch things nothing else could. Nearly half a century after its first flight, it is still the...
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