Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On April 10, 2026, the Swedish Armed Forces released photographs that tell a story in a single frame: two JAS 39 Gripen fighters flying overwatch above a Russian Kilo-class submarine as it transited the Kattegat — the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark that...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 3, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile struck one of the most valuable single pieces of military hardware the United States has ever deployed overseas. The target was not a warship, not an airfield, and not a command centre. It was a radar — a three-faced,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quick FactsNationalitySpanish 🇪🇸Aerial Victories40 (highest ace, Spanish Civil War)Aircraft FlownFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CWarsSpanish Civil War (Nationalist)Born / Died25 Apr 1904 – 4 Apr 1939 (age 34)UnitGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — via Wikimedia Commons Most of the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and cracked two ribs...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered production in 1959,...
Histoire et légendes, Nouvelles
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The price of Jet-A fuel in the United States averaged $8.63 per gallon in April 2026. That is $1.77 more than March. It is $2.03 more than a year ago. And it is more than double what it cost before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February. For anyone who...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It began life as a Canadian underdog. Bombardier’s CSeries was the aircraft that wasn’t supposed to survive — a small, clean-sheet design from a company that had never built anything bigger than a regional jet, taking on Boeing and Airbus on their home turf....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were four people who had...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and the numbers tell a...
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