Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The PZL M-15 Belphegor is the only jet-powered biplane ever put into series...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Partagez cette histoire. Le Junkers G.38 avait une aile de deux mètres d'épaisseur à l'emplanture. Junkers, fidèle à sa réputation, a considéré ce volume comme un gaspillage et a décidé d'y installer des passagers. Sur le deuxième appareil, six personnes prenaient place à bord….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story The Pacific is the largest single feature on the planet. In 1928 nobody had flown across it, and the reason was arithmetic: the distances between usable landfalls were longer than any aircraft could reliably manage, and if you missed the island you...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story When Amy Johnson took off from Croydon on 5 May 1930 bound for Australia, she had held a pilot’s licence for ten months and had never flown further than from London to Hull. Her aircraft was a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth with an open...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story In 1926 an oilfield roughneck in Oklahoma took a metal splinter in his left eye and lost it. Seven years later, the same man flew around the world on his own in under eight days, and then went looking for the edge of the atmosphere. Wiley Post had one...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Share this story On 21 October 1929, a flying boat took off from Lake Constance with 169 people aboard. No aircraft had ever carried close to that many. The record would stand for about twenty years. The Dornier Do X had twelve engines mounted above its wing in six...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story On 4 September 2026, an Air China Airbus A330-200 is scheduled to lift off from Beijing, stop for three hours in Bucharest, and continue to Zagreb. When it lands, Croatia will have a scheduled year-round air link to mainland China for the first time....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Two years ago Riyadh Air was a logo and a promise. This week it flew its first passengers to Bangkok — the newest thread in a network that Saudi Arabia intends to stretch across the planet.On September 2, the kingdom’s from-scratch flag...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Some stories are too strange to stay in the news cycle. On Friday, the strangest aviation story of the summer becomes a Netflix documentary. The streamer has fast-tracked a film about the afternoon in July when the President of the United States...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Share this story Volodymyr Zelensky spent the first day of September addressing an audience that is not usually on a wartime president’s list: airline schedulers, flight-planning departments and, pointedly, the underwriters who insure them. In a video address on...
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