Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Quick Facts Company Vertical Aerospace (Bristol, UK) Aircraft Full-scale VX4 demonstrator (piloted) Milestone First piloted thrustborne-to-wingborne transition flight Test Pilot Paul Stone Location Cotswold Airport, southwest England Date April 2, 2026 Production...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Quick Facts Airport San Francisco International Airport (SFO) What Changed FAA permanently banned simultaneous side-by-side landings on parallel runways 28L and 28R Runway Separation 750 feet — closer than any other major U.S. hub Capacity Impact Arrival rate cut from...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In 1799, a 26-year-old Yorkshire baronet engraved a small silver disc with two drawings — one on each side. On one face: a diagram of the forces acting on a wing in flight, showing lift, drag, and thrust as separate vectors. On the other: a sketch of a fixed-wing...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Quick FactsConcorde’s SpeedMach 2.04 (2,180 km/h) — London to New York in 3.5 hoursConcorde Service1976–2003 (27 years, British Airways and Air France)Modern Cruise SpeedMach 0.78–0.85 — slower than the Boeing 707 cruised in 1958Why We Slowed DownEconomics (fuel...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of September 19, 1783, at the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XVI of France watched a balloon rise into the sky carrying three passengers: a sheep named Montauciel, a duck, and a rooster. They flew for eight minutes and landed two miles away. All three...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Il ne l'a jamais construite. Les carnets où il l'a esquissée ne furent publiés qu'en 1797, près de trois siècles après sa mort. Mais les machines volantes dessinées par Léonard de Vinci à la fin du XVe siècle témoignent d'un esprit qui avait saisi le problème fondamental de l'aviation il y a 400 ans….
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