Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Here is something you do not see every day: Boeing builds a brand-new jet trainer, wins the U.S. Air Force contract, and then tells the U.S. Navy, no thanks. On June 12, the company confirmed it will not bid the T-7A Red Hawk for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The buzz of a Shahed over Kharkiv has become one of the most dreaded sounds of this war. On the night of 8 June 2026, something answered it that no human was flying. A small fixed-wing interceptor lifted off, climbed to its waiting altitude, picked the incoming drone...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 7 a.m. on 15 June 2026, a Porter Airlines Embraer E195-E2 rolled toward the runway at a South Shore airfield that had not seen a scheduled airline departure in living memory. As flight PD181 lined up for Vancouver, the airport fire trucks arched a water-cannon...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the late 1960s, a CIA analyst sat staring at a grainy satellite photograph of the Caspian Sea and could not make the numbers work. The machine in the frame was nearly 100 metres long — longer than a Boeing 747 — yet it was clearly skimming the water,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture a flatbed trailer tilting slowly skyward in the California desert until it stands almost vertical, and clinging to it nose-up like a wasp on a windowpane, a stubby silver dart of an aircraft. There is no runway in sight. There is no landing gear worth the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On a grey morning in Pucheng, in China’s Shaanxi province, a chunky white-and-blue aircraft with two propellers and a twin-boom tail rolled down the runway, lifted off, and flew a full 22-minute circuit — climb, manoeuvre, approach and landing. Nothing...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Just after noon on June 13, 2026, residents around Rimrock Lake heard the kind of sound that doesn’t belong over a quiet stretch of the Washington Cascades: a fighter jet, low and fast, then a series of sharp pops. Seconds later a U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
In a back garden in Darlington, a 40-kilo aircraft drops out of the County Durham sky, hovers about four metres up, releases a shoebox-sized parcel onto the lawn, and climbs away again. No van. No driver. No knock on the door. Just a tube of mascara, or a phone cable,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It flew. That is the strangest, most expensive part of the whole story. The Mitsubishi SpaceJet was not a paper aeroplane or a CGI fantasy that died on a designer’s screen. It rolled out, it taxied, it rotated off the runway at Nagoya, and it climbed into a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Philippine Airlines vient de moderniser l'un des plus longs trajets commerciaux au monde. À compter du 5 juin 2026, la compagnie aérienne nationale exploitera son tout nouvel Airbus A350-1000 sur la liaison sans escale entre Manille et Toronto – un périple d'environ 13 200 km qui devient désormais….
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