Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
NASA’s X-59 QueSST aircraft, the direct descendant of the SSBD programme, broke the sound barrier for the first time in June 2026 — designed to produce a gentle thump instead of a thunderclap. (NASA) If you have ever seen a photo of the Shaped Sonic Boom...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Il y a cinquante ans aujourd'hui, le 1er juillet 1976, le Musée national de l'air et de l'espace du Smithsonian ouvrait ses portes sur le National Mall à Washington, D.C. C'était un cadeau du bicentenaire à une nation qui venait de faire atterrir des hommes sur la Lune, de remporter la course à l'espace et de construire….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 10 March 2026, more than 400 customers, partners, and aviation executives gathered in a new production hall at Bordeaux-Mérignac as Dassault Aviation pulled the curtain on the Falcon 10X — the largest, longest-ranged, and most technologically advanced business jet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
An S7 Airlines Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of the runway at Mirny Airport in Russia’s Sakha Republic on June 30, coming to rest in mud beyond the paved surface. All 173 passengers and six crew members walked away without injury. But the incident — classified...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every aircraft on this list looked, on paper, like a brilliant idea. Each had serious money, serious engineering and serious ambition behind it. And each ended the same way: cancelled, scrapped or quietly buried after burning through a fortune, without ever doing the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
There is expensive, and then there is “costs more than Air Force One.” The VH-71 Kestrel, the helicopter that was supposed to become the next Marine One, somehow managed the second one. By the time anyone added it all up, the bill for 28 of them had passed...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
United Flight 1513, a Boeing 737-700 inbound from Key West with 106 people on board, is on final approach to Newark Liberty on a Friday afternoon when the crew sees a small circular object — perhaps three feet across — flash past about a hundred feet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It is just after six o’clock on a Saturday evening at Miami International Airport. American Airlines Flight 308, an Airbus A319 loaded with passengers bound for Bermuda, has been cleared onto Runway 8 and is beginning to roll. Then the crew sees something that...
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