Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On May 19, 2026, the United States Air Force ordered an operational pause for its entire fleet of T-38 Talon jet trainers. Every T-38 across every command—Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Force Global...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Every aircraft has a logbook. And every logbook tells a story—usually about hydraulic leaks, faulty warning lights, and the slow entropy of flying machines held together by rivets, regulations, and sheer maintenance crew willpower. But hidden among the technical...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is an aircraft that first flew when Harry Truman was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
In late April 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise complaints. No two-hour...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase. In 2026, that...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven long-haul, twelve...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Les hélicoptères font ce que les avions à voilure fixe ne peuvent pas. Ils peuvent se poser sur des toits, dans la jungle, à l'arrière d'un destroyer, sur une route forestière, sur un atoll du Pacifique plus petit qu'un terrain de basket. Le prix à payer ? La vitesse. Un hélicoptère qui vole à 150 nœuds, c'est rare….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Sun Country Airlines n'aurait jamais imaginé devenir un cas d'école dans le secteur aérien. Fondée en 1982 par des pilotes de Braniff licenciés, la compagnie a discrètement exploité pendant trente ans des vols charters pour le ski au départ de Minneapolis-Saint Paul, des circuits organisés à Las Vegas et, occasionnellement, des traversées pour les matchs de football universitaire de la NCAA.
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
La plupart des compagnies aériennes africaines ont passé la dernière décennie à lutter pour leur survie. Ethiopian Airlines, quant à elle, a passé la même décennie à surpasser toutes les autres compagnies aériennes de son continent, et même certaines d'autres continents. La compagnie basée à Addis-Abeba transporte plus de passagers internationaux que toute autre….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had spent years in the Arizona boneyard rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: “Apocalypse II.” Serial...
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