Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Late in the afternoon of 7 June 1981, eight Israeli F-16s are skimming the desert at rooftop height, fuel gauges a constant worry. Flying the last and most exposed aircraft in the formation is the youngest of them, a 27-year-old named Ilan Ramon, who has done the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il est presque onze heures, dans la nuit du 11 novembre 1940, et le lieutenant de vaisseau Kenneth “ Hooch ” Williamson fait descendre son Fairey Swordfish à travers la DCA au-dessus du port de Tarente. Des fusées éclairantes au magnésium flottent dans le ciel, projetant les navires ancrés….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is a little after dawn on 15 August 1945, and a flight of Grumman F6F Hellcats is droning north over the haze of Tokyo Bay. In the cockpits are young U.S. Navy pilots of Air Group 88, launched from the carrier USS Yorktown to strike airfields near the Japanese...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The Marine general who runs the F-35 program walked into a Senate hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud: the most expensive weapons program in history has outgrown the system built to keep it flying.It landed weeks after a Government Accountability Office...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
United Flight 1513, a Boeing 737-700 inbound from Key West with 106 people on board, is on final approach to Newark Liberty on a Friday afternoon when the crew sees a small circular object — perhaps three feet across — flash past about a hundred feet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It is just after six o’clock on a Saturday evening at Miami International Airport. American Airlines Flight 308, an Airbus A319 loaded with passengers bound for Bermuda, has been cleared onto Runway 8 and is beginning to roll. Then the crew sees something that...
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