Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 24 novembre 1961, une machine ressemblant à deux hélicoptères boulonnés aux extrémités des ailes d'un avion de transport a soulevé 16,4 tonnes à deux kilomètres et demi d'altitude, établi six records du monde en un seul vol, et atterri trente minutes plus tard avec son voyant de carburant allumé...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every fighter jet has the same fatal dependency: a long strip of concrete. Destroy the runway and the aircraft is a very expensive ornament. In the early 1950s, with NATO planners assuming their handful of airfields in Germany would be atomised in the opening hours of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
The most important document in this story is a memo. It was written on 27 June 1972 by an engineer named Dan Applegate, it ran to a few pages, and it said clearly what was going to happen. Twenty months later it happened. Three hundred and forty-six people died in a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Somebody put four foam cushions on a heating vent. That is where it starts. Not with a missile, not with a Soviet fighter, not with a catastrophic structural failure. Three cloth-covered cushions stowed on a hot-air outlet under a seat before take-off, and a fourth...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed when the aircraft...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Most aeroplanes are shaped by aerodynamics. The Short Skyvan was shaped by what would fit inside it. Short Brothers started from the cargo and worked outwards: a square-section fuselage of constant cross-section, running straight back to a full-width...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Inside the glider, in the dark, the tank crew sat in their tank with the engine running. The exhaust was ducted out through the side of the aircraft. When the glider stopped moving, the driver pulled a lanyard to release the shackles and drove...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Every flying boat is a compromise between two incompatible shapes. To get off the water you want a deep hull, to keep the propellers clear of spray, and a wing sitting at a high angle so it will unstick. To fly efficiently you want neither of those...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The PZL M-15 Belphegor is the only jet-powered biplane ever put into series...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Partagez cette histoire. Le Junkers G.38 avait une aile de deux mètres d'épaisseur à l'emplanture. Junkers, fidèle à sa réputation, a considéré ce volume comme un gaspillage et a décidé d'y installer des passagers. Sur le deuxième appareil, six personnes prenaient place à bord….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story Four open-cockpit biplanes left Seattle on 6 April 1924 to fly around the world. They had no radios. Their engines were surplus wartime Liberty V-12s. Their crews navigated by map, compass and coastline, and when they needed to cross an ocean they...
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