Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The dream was an electric jet that would whisk you between cities in near silence, lifting off vertically from a rooftop and cruising on stubby wings packed with tiny fans. Lilium, the Munich start-up that raised well over a billion dollars chasing that dream,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
July was, by Airbus’s recent standards, a quiet month. The European planemaker handed over 67 aircraft to 39 customers — a step down from 89 in June and 81 in May. And yet, halfway-plus through 2026, Airbus is still comfortably in front.The running total...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For months the story ran the wrong way. Poland was going to scrap its last MiG-29 fighters rather than hand them to Ukraine, a drones-for-jets deal apparently dead in the water. On 7 August 2026 the narrative flipped.Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
France has made its move. On 6 August 2026, Dassault Aviation handed New Delhi a formal techno-commercial proposal for 114 Rafale fighters — the long-awaited answer to India’s Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender, and one of the largest single fighter...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Un patrouilleur hauturier est, en règle générale, un navire modeste : une coque robuste, un seul canon de moyen tonnage, et une mission axée sur la protection des pêcheries et la lutte contre la contrebande. Les Émirats arabes unis ont examiné cette formule et, poliment, l’ont ignorée. Nouveau….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant près d'un demi-siècle, le grondement du A-10 Warthog a rythmé la base aérienne de Davis-Monthan. Le 29 juillet, ce son s'est éteint définitivement, et l'armée de l'air s'active pour combler ce silence par un tout autre son. Avec les derniers Warthogs….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
After a certification saga that outlasted a pandemic, three Boeing CEOs and the better part of a decade, the smallest jet in the 737 MAX family is finally legal to carry passengers. On 3 August, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted Boeing an amended type...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The U.S. Navy’s two great ocean-watchers already work as a pair. Now they are learning to talk directly to each other — and one of them is about to start taking orders straight from the other’s cockpit. On 5 August, Boeing and Northrop Grumman...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, an airport worker at Leipzig/Halle spotted something that should not have been there: a drone, sitting on the tarmac near the south runway, carrying an explosive device. It was resting a short distance from one of the largest...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Bangladesh does not often make the big Boeing headlines. That changed at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, where the country’s largest private airline quietly placed the biggest bet of its twelve-year life. At the “Beyond with Boeing” event on 29 July,...
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