Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For more than five decades, Southwest Airlines grew the way a balloon inflates — relentlessly, in every direction, never quite stopping. Open seating, bags fly free, a single fleet type, and a map that only ever seemed to add dots. Retreat was not in the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It took the internet roughly ten minutes. On 19 May 2026, the National Transportation Safety Board opened its public docket on the crash of UPS Flight 2976 and, among thousands of pages, included a single PDF: a spectrogram, a visual graph of the sound captured by the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In September 1949, the largest land-based aircraft in the world took to the skies over southwest England. The Bristol Brabazon was a colossus — its 230-foot wingspan exceeded that of a modern Boeing 747. It was powered by eight radial engines coupled in pairs to drive...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Somewhere outside the Siberian town of Abakan, in the Republic of Khakassia, there is a packed-snow airstrip about 200 metres long. It is the only way to get into a village called Nizhny Kurlugash in the winter months. The strip is serviced, twice a week, by a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Beauty in aviation is a real engineering property. The aircraft that pilots, photographers, and aviation historians consistently call the most beautiful are not pretty by accident — they are pretty because every line, every fairing, every panel break is doing work....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For nearly fifty years it sat in someone’s storage closet — a small, wooden, surprisingly fragile model of an interstellar starship. This week, the Roddenberry Archive gave the public its first detailed look at the original 33-inch prototype of the USS...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
VietJet Air just dropped a new line on the world’s long-haul map — and it runs straight from Hanoi to Prague. Starting 10 October 2026, the Vietnamese low-cost carrier will fly an Airbus A330 twice a week between Vietnam’s capital and the Czech Republic,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the back of an early Boeing 737-200’s Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine, just behind the exhaust plug, are two big curved aluminium-honeycomb panels. In normal flight they wrap around the rear of the engine and look like the back end of the nacelle itself. On...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In Ulyanovsk on the Volga, in 1973, a Soviet-Italian film crew built a road. Not a real road for cars. A road-coloured runway, marked up with traffic paint, complete with painted Lada-grey lane lines and roadside signs in Cyrillic, all of it laid down across a reserve...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
A .30 calibre bullet hits a fuel tank at 800 metres per second. The aluminium skin punctures. A jet of avgas blows out under pressure, into the slipstream, towards a hot turbocharger exhaust. The aircraft, on most tanks built before 1939, is now thirty seconds from...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Tous les constructeurs d'eVTOL — Joby, Archer, Lilium's ghost, Volocopter's ghost, Eve, Vertical Aerospace — sont confrontés au même problème que personne n'ose aborder : même si l'appareil est construit avec succès, où atterrit-il précisément en ville ?.
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