Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It was three days after Christmas, 1972. A brand-new Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was on final approach to Miami with 176 people aboard when a tiny green light — the one confirming the nose landing gear was down and locked — failed to come on. It was a...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a clear night in April 1979, a Boeing 727 cruising at 39,000 feet over Michigan suddenly rolled onto its back and fell out of the sky, spinning through two complete rolls as it plunged toward the ground. Sixty-three seconds later it had dropped nearly seven miles....
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
A Boeing 747 does not simply fall out of the sky. But on the night of 19 February 1985, over the Pacific, one did — rolling onto its side and plunging nearly six miles toward the ocean with 274 people aboard. That any of them lived is down to a few desperate...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Thirteen minutes after leaving Birmingham on the morning of 10 June 1990, the pilots of British Airways Flight 5390 had loosened their shoulder straps and set breakfast on their laps. Then, with a bang like a bomb, the left cockpit windscreen tore away — and...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Cut a hole in the side of a jumbo jet, point a two-and-a-half-metre telescope out of it, and fly the whole contraption into the stratosphere at night. It sounds like a terrible idea. For twelve years, it was one of the most productive telescopes in the world.It was...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the late 1920s, a young man named Willard Custer watched a windstorm peel the roof off a barn. The roof did not slide forward and lift like an aircraft; it simply rose straight up as the wind screamed over it. Custer had a revelation that would consume the rest of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Imagine a cargo plane that works like a truck and trailer. It lands, drops off a fully loaded box, clips on an empty one, and is airborne again in minutes — while ground crews unload the box it left behind. In 1950, Fairchild actually built that airplane. It was...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Europe’s most ambitious fighter project spent years tearing itself apart. Now, from the wreckage, an unexpected suitor has stepped forward: India.On 7 August 2026, India’s Ministry of Defence confirmed to Parliament that New Delhi has begun efforts to join...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Les compagnies aériennes adorent les gros chiffres. Turkish Airlines vient d'en publier un qu'il est difficile de contester : le dimanche 2 août 2026, le groupe a transporté 352 715 passagers en une seule journée, soit le record absolu de ses 93 ans d'existence. Ce chiffre ne concerne pas une seule compagnie, mais deux compagnies opérant simultanément….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Everyone remembers the Airbus A380 as the great double-decker of the skies. Almost nobody remembers that France built one two generations earlier. In 1953, Air France put into service a broad-shouldered, four-engined airliner with two full passenger decks and a lift...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Dans les premières minutes d'Octopussy (1983), James Bond, incarné par Roger Moore, s'échappe d'un hangar en explosion à bord d'un jet à peine plus grand que lui, échappe à un missile à tête chercheuse, puis arrive en roue libre à une station-service et lance, impassible : “ Faites le plein, s'il vous plaît. ” La blague fonctionne….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Un après-midi de juin 1988, devant des milliers de spectateurs venus assister à un meeting aérien, un Airbus A320 flambant neuf — l’avion de ligne le plus avancé au monde, pour son tout premier vol commercial — a effectué un passage lent et bas au-dessus d’un petit aérodrome français, avant de se fondre doucement dans les arbres….
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