Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the autumn of 1932, a small, barrel-chested aeroplane painted red and white sat on a Cleveland airfield looking less like an aircraft than a cartoon of one. It was almost all engine — a giant radial nose bolted to a stubby fuselage, with the cockpit shoved so far...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
From the moment humans first left the ground, a certain kind of pilot has asked a dangerous question: what happens if I try this? The answers fill the wildest chapter of aviation history — a century of loops, rolls, dives and impossible threading of gaps, flown by men...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This July at Oshkosh,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the largest low-cost...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Chaque année en juillet, un coin tranquille du Gloucestershire se transforme en l'aérodrome militaire le plus fréquenté au monde. Chasseurs, bombardiers et patrouilles acrobatiques de dizaines de nations envahissent le tarmac de la base aérienne de la RAF de Fairford pour le Royal International Air Tattoo, le plus grand meeting aérien militaire au monde.
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are still waiting,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward the vertical until...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in half, tore the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers, opened...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
A fighter pilot pulling 7G in a turning engagement has roughly three seconds to acquire a target, compute a firing solution, and press the trigger. Looking down at cockpit instruments during those three seconds means looking away from the threat — and in air combat,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
La Chine a immobilisé au sol toute l'aviation générale sur l'ensemble du territoire national — avions légers privés, jets d'affaires, écoles de pilotage, clubs de parachutisme et vols à voile — après qu'un petit avion monomoteur s'est écrasé contre la tour CITIC, dans le centre de Pékin, le 26 juin 2026. Cette interdiction, qui a….
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