Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Two and a half weeks after it flew its very first paying passengers, Saudi Arabia’s brand-new airline has been handed the keys to the world’s second-biggest aviation market. Riyadh Air is going to China.The Civil Aviation Administration of China has...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Eighty years ago, a fat-bellied flying boat called the PBY Catalina rescued downed airmen, sank submarines and crossed oceans on missions that lasted a full day and night. Its type certificate has quietly survived ever since. Now someone wants to...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The fiercest duel at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow will not be flown by any display pilot. It will be fought across a conference table, over roughly one hundred single-aisle jets and the signature of one Dublin-based leasing...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Canada already knows what its next fighter looks like: the F-35A, dozens of which are on order. And yet Ottawa has just reached for a very different aircraft — one being designed in London, Rome and Tokyo. Reporting on July 15 said Canada has agreed...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story The passengers on Virgin Atlantic flight VS135 boarded at Heathrow on Monday afternoon expecting palm trees and theme parks. Five hours later they climbed down the same set of stairs at the same London airport, no closer to Orlando than when they...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Share this story Every couple of years a former RAF airfield in Hampshire becomes the centre of the aviation universe for five days. From July 20, it happens again — and the 2026 edition of the Farnborough International Airshow is shaping up to be the biggest in the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Europe’s most recognisable low-cost airline has become the object of a transatlantic tug-of-war. On 10 July 2026, the board of easyJet told the market it was no longer minded to recommend a takeover proposal from the American investment firm...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Share this story It may be the most beautiful aircraft the United States Navy ever sent to sea: long, impossibly sleek, twin-finned and built to sprint at twice the speed of sound off a carrier deck. The North American A-5 Vigilante looked like it had arrived from a...
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