Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the evening of 26 May 1941, fifteen fabric-covered biplanes lumbered off the pitching deck of HMS Ark Royal into a North Atlantic gale. Their target was the most powerful warship in the world: the German battleship Bismarck, a 50,000-ton behemoth that had just...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of January 2, 1967, a formation of aircraft appeared on North Vietnamese radar screens approaching Hanoi from the west. To the radar operators at Phuc Yen and Gia Lam airfields, the electronic signatures looked familiar: F-105 Thunderchiefs, the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In early May 2026, a deplaning incident at Newark Liberty International Airport became the latest flashpoint in America’s turbulent relationship with air travel etiquette — but with a twist no one expected. The woman at the center of the controversy filmed and...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional hearings, and a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Summer hasn’t officially started, but the chaos arrived early. On May 12, 2026, a cascade of delays, cancellations, and ground stops swept across American airports like a storm front — which, in many cases, it literally was. Phoenix Sky Harbor International...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On a clear Sunday morning in late April, a small white aircraft with six tilting propellers lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport and headed northwest toward the gleaming towers of Midtown Manhattan. Seven minutes later, it touched down at the East...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
It is 0200 hours in the Eastern Mediterranean. The flight deck of USS Gerald R. Ford smells faintly of jet fuel and seawater. A yellow-shirted Air Boss raises an arm. Three hundred feet of catapult — not steam, not for the first time in U.S. naval aviation history,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Airbus A220 has been the most underestimated commercial airliner of the past decade — a Canadian-designed jet (originally the Bombardier C Series) that quietly piled up loyal customers and stellar dispatch reliability while the headlines went to bigger aircraft....
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, À l'intérieur de MiGFlug
Avant les fusées. Avant que les voitures électriques ne se démocratisent. Avant Mars, avant les tunnels, avant les réseaux sociaux — il y avait un jeune entrepreneur sud-africain dans le désert du Nevada, sanglé dans le cockpit d'un avion de chasse de l'époque de la Guerre froide, souriant sous un...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up 52%. Backlog:...
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