Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Un missile hypersonique coûte généralement le prix d'une petite maison de maître — des dizaines de millions de dollars par tir, fabriqué à la main, précieusement conservé comme un joyau. La marine américaine vient de passer commande pour un missile hypersonique qu'elle espère acquérir pour le prix d'une maison modeste : quelque part….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il coûte plus de cent millions de dollars, c'est le chasseur le plus sophistiqué que les États-Unis construisent, et le matin du 9 juin, il était stationné sur une route à deux voies dans les bois finlandais, en train de faire le plein de carburant, à quelques envergures de pins de distance. Deux F-35B du Corps des Marines des États-Unis...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It is just after two in the morning over the mid-Atlantic, and the cockpit of an Airbus A330 has gone quiet in the worst possible way. No engine hum. No thrust. Just the thin whistle of air over an airframe weighing more than 180 tonnes, sinking toward a black ocean...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 11,000 feet over the wooded hills north of New York City, on a grey December afternoon, two airliners that were never supposed to meet found themselves on a converging path. Within seconds the tip of a Boeing 707’s left wing sliced through the triple tail of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a freezing afternoon in May 1942, on a frozen lake near the Ural town of Bilimbay, a stubby green aeroplane the size of a fighter trainer crouched on the snow. It carried no propeller. In its tail sat a steel chamber fed by red fuming nitric acid and kerosene...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 17 March 1947, two test pilots lifted a four-engined jet off the hard-packed lakebed at Muroc, in the California high desert, and into a clear blue sky. The aircraft was ungainly, slab-sided, and unmistakably a product of the piston age with...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The blizzard came in off the Sea of Japan in sheets, and the flight deck of the USS Oriskany pitched in the grey November swell. It was 18 November 1952, and Lieutenant Royce Williams climbed into the cockpit of his Grumman F9F-5 Panther for his second mission of the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Just after midnight on 18 June 2026, residents of Moscow filmed something the Russian capital was not built to see: black smoke boiling over the Kapotnya district, where the Moscow Oil Refinery sits. It was the second strike on that single plant in a week. Ukrainian...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The Alpha Scramble order reaches the quick reaction alert shelter at Šiauliai before the coffee has cooled. Two Romanian F-16s, fuelled and armed, are airborne over the grey Baltic within minutes, vectored toward an unidentified contact loitering off the...
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