Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On December 14, 1986, a strange-looking aircraft — long, thin, with two fuselages, a pusher engine, a puller engine, and wings so flexible they bent visibly under their own weight — rolled down a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California and lifted off. It was...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 10:56 PM Eastern time on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong placed his left boot on the surface of the Moon and said words that 600 million people — one in five people alive on Earth — were listening to live. The signal took 1.26 seconds to travel from the lunar surface...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In 1965, Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe phoned Boeing president Bill Allen and asked whether Boeing could build an aircraft twice the size of anything currently flying. Allen said he would look into it. The two men then did something remarkable for...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On October 24, 2003, British Airways flight BA002 touched down at London Heathrow for the last time. As it taxied in, the crew made an announcement: this was Concorde’s final commercial flight. The passengers — who had each paid around £8,000 for a seat — stood...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 7:25 PM on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg — 804 feet long, the largest aircraft ever built — caught fire while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. In 34 seconds, the largest flying object in history was a wreck on the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island — a two-mile-long coral strip in the central Pacific, 2,556 miles away. They were on the longest and most dangerous leg of an around-the-world flight....
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the evening of May 21, 1927, a single-engine monoplane appeared out of the darkness over Le Bourget airfield near Paris. The crowd waiting on the ground numbered 150,000 people — the largest gathering in French history to that point. When Charles Lindbergh stepped...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical Aerospace’s full-scale...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The price of Jet-A fuel in the United States averaged $8.63 per gallon in April 2026. That is $1.77 more than March. It is $2.03 more than a year ago. And it is more than double what it cost before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February. For anyone who...
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