Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On the evening of 4 October 1930, the largest flying object the world had ever built slipped its mooring mast at Cardington and turned south for India. The R101 was 777 feet long, more than seven storeys tall, and carried a government minister who had...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu — 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. Fifteen crews signed up, tens of thousands of spectators came to watch,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story The longest passenger flight ever operated was not a modern jet gliding from Singapore to New York. It was a lumbering World War II flying boat, cruising at 125 mph across a hostile ocean for up to thirty-three hours at a stretch — long enough...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On the morning of 7 December 1941, a Pan American Boeing 314 flying boat was two hours out of Auckland, New Zealand, gliding across the South Pacific in luxury — dining lounge, sleeping berths, white-jacketed stewards. Then the radio operator...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story An airliner is steered by its hydraulics. They move the ailerons, the elevators, the rudder — every control surface the pilots touch. Take away all of it and, in theory, the aircraft becomes an unsteerable projectile. On 22 November 2003, a DHL...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Picture a man leaning out of an open cockpit in a powder-blue military tunic he designed himself, a waxed moustache curling at the tips, waving to the crowd — and cradling a live lion cub in the crook of his arm. That was Roscoe Turner, and in...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Grumman set out to build the finest carrier fighter of the Second World War: a twin-engine brute that could outrun and outgun anything in the sky and haul a bomber’s worth of ordnance off a flight deck. It succeeded. The Tigercat was...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Somewhere under the muddy shallows of Wassaw Sound, off the coast of Georgia, sits a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb. The United States Air Force dropped it there in 1958, searched for ten weeks, gave up, and has left it alone ever since. It is one of a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Shortly after 11 a.m. on 16 August 1942, a sagging, half-deflated US Navy blimp came drifting low over the rooftops of Daly City, California, snagging telephone wires as a crowd chased it through the streets. It finally sank onto the pavement in front...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story He had one eye, a sixth-grade education and a criminal record. He was also, by any honest measure, one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. Wiley Post circled the planet alone before most people had ever sat in an aeroplane, built the suit that made...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Partagez cette histoire. Le soir du 4 septembre 1936, un monoplan turquoise et argent décolla d'un aérodrome de l'Oxfordshire et prit le large au-dessus de l'Atlantique, dans l'obscurité et face au vent. Aux commandes, seule, se trouvait une femme de 33 ans qui n'avait jamais piloté d'avion...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Partagez cette histoire. Deux mois après qu'un missile soviétique abattit Gary Powers et son U-2, un autre avion américain patrouillait aux confins du même empire. Le 1er juillet 1960, un Boeing RB-47H effectuait une mission de reconnaissance électronique solitaire à haute altitude au-dessus de….
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