Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On 21 August 1963 a Tupolev Tu-124 ran out of fuel over the middle of Leningrad, glided for fourteen seconds, cleared a bridge, and landed on the River Neva without killing anybody. A tug that happened to be towing a raft of timber past the spot cast off, came...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets behind their seats....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Last week a volunteer-run space programme in Rancho Cordova, California, released some pictures. They show a dark, wing-shaped vehicle called Hazel dropping away from twin balloons joined by a long truss, high above the Earth. They are stills from an animation. There...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
DL234 pushed back from JFK Terminal 4 on Sunday afternoon and landed at Ben Gurion on Monday morning. An Airbus A330-900neo, 281 seats, ten and three quarter hours eastbound. It is an entirely ordinary flight, and it had not operated since 28 February. That was the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Airlines do not usually order more of an aircraft they have never flown. ANA has just ordered eight. Embraer announced the deal from Tokyo on 4 September, formalising a decision the ANA Holdings board took on 29 July. It takes ANA’s firm order for the E190-E2...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 23:07 on Friday night, local time, Anak Krakatau started throwing lava into the sky and did not stop for twenty-five hours. People heard the booming 700 kilometres away. By Sunday morning the biggest airport in Southeast Asia’s fourth-largest country was...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Developing story. This account is based on the FAA, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Amazon and initial reporting on the afternoon of 6 September 2026. Casualty information has not been confirmed by the authorities and early details in accidents like this frequently change. A...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
FLY91 has six aeroplanes. On Thursday it ordered forty more. The Goa-based regional carrier signed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops at a ceremony in New Delhi on 3 September, in a deal valued at roughly $1 billion at list prices. It is the largest firm order...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 5 January 2024 a door plug departed an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX at around 16,000 feet, leaving a hole in the side of a full airliner. Nobody was killed, which was luck rather than design. The Federal Aviation Administration eventually proposed a fine....
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