Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story The passengers on BOAC Flight 911 were promised a treat: a close-up view of Mount Fuji, gleaming under a brilliant blue sky. Minutes later, the sky that looked so calm tore their Boeing 707 apart. The disaster of 5 March 1966 is one of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The video is the kind that makes your stomach drop: a sleek business jet greasing its main wheels onto the runway, then holding its nose in the air for a few long seconds — because there was nothing underneath it to hold the nose up. On 18...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story For 13 years, if you wanted to fly nonstop from Melbourne to Seoul on Korean Air, you were out of luck. That changes this December. On 19 August 2026, Korean Air confirmed it will resume nonstop Seoul–Melbourne service — its first flights...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The Gulf’s low-cost giant is about to do something low-cost carriers are not supposed to do: fly a narrowbody, non-stop, five and a half hours to the heart of Europe — every single day. On 19 August 2026, Air Arabia announced a new daily...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story At 10,000 metres somewhere between Frankfurt and Rome, Jens Ritter reached up and switched on the internet. The gesture, aboard an Airbus A320neo named “November Mike,” marked the first Lufthansa passenger flight flying with Wi-Fi powered...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Switzerland’s first F-35A Lightning II is no longer a set of drawings and contracts. It is now metal. In a hall at Cameri, in the Italian region of Piedmont, the first fuselage section of a Swiss jet has been mated to its first wing — the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Munich Airport has had a nervous week. On the evening of 17 August 2026, a Lufthansa Airbus A380 arriving from San Francisco touched down short of its runway and ploughed through the approach lighting at the threshold. All 351 people on board were...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story For thirty years, the sound of Finland’s air defence has been the twin-engine howl of the F/A-18 Hornet. Now the clock on that sound has started ticking down. As Finland’s first F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters move through training in...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In November 1983, a 31-year-old Quebec pilot landed a light aircraft by himself at a small airfield in Georgia. It was loaded with marijuana, flown up from Jamaica. Police were waiting.He was sentenced to five years and served sixteen months. He...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Share this story In 2025 the world spent $2,887 billion on its armed forces. That is the highest figure SIPRI has ever recorded, the eleventh consecutive annual increase, and it works out at $352 for every person alive.Below is what that money bought, counted as...
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