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....
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The Fighter Collection at Duxford flies aeroplanes that most museums would bolt to a plinth. Late last month one of the rarest of them had an engine problem on a maintenance check flight and ended up on its belly in a field northwest of Royston. The pilot was not...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Almost every retired airliner ends the same way. It sits in a desert or a Turkish boneyard, the engines come off, the useful parts are stripped, and what is left goes through a shredder. TC-JDL got a second life instead. The Airbus A340-311 was cut up, loaded onto...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The Airbus A320 has three hydraulic systems, and they are separate on purpose. Green, blue and yellow. Three reservoirs, three pressure sources, no fluid shared between them. The architecture exists so that no single failure can take away the flight controls. On 4...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In November 1955 the British government cancelled a four-engined jet transport that was around 80 percent built, on the grounds that nobody in Britain wanted it. Eleven months later the same government approved the purchase of fifteen Boeing 707s for its state...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
The most important document in this story is a memo. It was written on 27 June 1972 by an engineer named Dan Applegate, it ran to a few pages, and it said clearly what was going to happen. Twenty months later it happened. Three hundred and forty-six people died in a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Two flag carriers that have been quietly cooperating since the early 1960s signed a new agreement in Seoul on 3 September. On its own that would barely register. The timing is what makes it interesting. In fourteen weeks, Asiana Airlines ceases to exist. On 17...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Un avion dont l'envergure correspondait aux trois quarts de celle d'un Airbus A320 et qui pesait le poids de deux adultes a décollé d'une piste en Saxe-Anhalt le 2 septembre, a effectué un large circuit prudent pendant soixante-dix minutes, puis a atterri. Il n'a jamais dépassé 180 mètres d'altitude. Ce n'est pas...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the missiles know what...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
There is an Airbus A380 sitting in the sun at Tarbes, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It has been there since 16 July 2025. It is painted for an airline that has flown four flights in its entire existence, holds no air operator’s certificate, and is now defending...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Share this story It is the question we get asked more than any other, and it is the one question about fighter aircraft that has no honest single answer. The problem is not that nobody knows. The problem is that “best” is four or five different questions...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Most aeroplanes are shaped by aerodynamics. The Short Skyvan was shaped by what would fit inside it. Short Brothers started from the cargo and worked outwards: a square-section fuselage of constant cross-section, running straight back to a full-width...
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