Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the mid-1980s, Beechcraft decided to leap a generation ahead of everyone else. It teamed up with Burt Rutan, the most imaginative aircraft designer alive, and built a business aeroplane that looked like it had flown in from the next century: an all-carbon-fibre...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a freezing April night in 1978, a South Korean airliner full of sleeping passengers wandered a thousand miles off course, over one of the most secret corners of the Soviet Union, and was hit by an air-to-air missile. What happened next is one of the most...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 1 November 2011, a Boeing 767 slid down a runway at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport on its belly, spraying sparks and foam, with 231 people aboard and not a single wheel beneath it. When it stopped, everyone walked away. Some passengers did not even...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The world’s most powerful army just decided its next combat pilots will learn to fly on a helicopter you could, in principle, buy off a dealer’s lot. On August 13, the U.S. Army picked M1 Support Services and its partner Robinson Helicopters to run Flight...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The image is almost too strange to be true: the President of the United States, having boarded Air Force One in front of the world’s cameras, quietly slipping back off the jet and into an airport catering truck — then flying home on a different plane entirely...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Nine little red jets, wingtips almost touching, trailing white smoke across a summer sky. For generations of Canadians that image is the air show. After the 2026 season, it changes forever: the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutor, the tiny jet they have flown...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Jakarta’s traffic is the stuff of legend — the kind of gridlock where a five-mile trip can eat two hours. Now an Indonesian operator wants to fly over it. On August 12, Whitesky Aviation signed a memorandum of understanding for 60 electric air taxis, betting that the...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the technology of its...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if nothing were wrong....
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When Air Force One lifted off from Ankara after the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, the whole world assumed it knew who was on board. The world was wrong. According to a Washington Post investigation revealed on August 10, President Trump publicly boarded the big...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 during a visit to...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Most cargo aircraft need three things the battlefield rarely offers: a runway, a pilot, and a ground crew to load them. Elroy Air’s Chaparral needs none of them. On August 12, 2026, the California company demonstrated new unattended delivery modes for the U.S....
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