Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Try, today, to fly from Hong Kong to Almaty. You can’t — not directly. You go the long way, connecting through the Gulf, or Istanbul, or Moscow, turning a regional hop into a day-long ordeal. From early 2027, that finally changes. Cathay Pacific has...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Samedi, quelque part au-dessus de l'ouest du Maryland, un pilote privé effectuait un vol normal lorsqu'un avion de chasse est apparu à l'extrémité de son aile. Vers 12 h 20 le 20 juin 2026, un petit avion d'aviation générale a pénétré dans une zone d'interdiction temporaire de vol...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Most of what an air force does in secret stays secret. Occasionally, though, the secret taxis past a photographer in broad daylight. That is what happened at RAF Akrotiri, where the British Ministry of Defence has just released official photographs of its newest drone...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Un terrain de football mesure 91,44 mètres de long. Le matin du 20 juin 2026, c'était à peu près la distance qui séparait un samedi ordinaire à l'aéroport Logan de Boston d'une catastrophe dont tout le pays parlerait encore. Le vol Delta 2351, un Airbus A319 en provenance de Dallas avec 135 personnes à bord….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Voici le problème hypersonique américain en une phrase : les missiles fonctionnent, mais pas les usines. Les États-Unis ont consacré des années et des milliards à prouver qu’ils pouvaient construire des armes filant à plus de cinq fois la vitesse du son. Ce que….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
There was applause at the gate. On 3 June 2026, as Air Canada flight AC27 pushed back from Toronto Pearson bound for Shanghai, staff and travellers marked the moment with the kind of small ceremony airlines reserve for something that actually matters. A flight had...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Hunting a modern submarine is one of the most demanding tasks in military aviation. It means hours of patient, fuel-hungry orbits over empty ocean, listening for a contact that may never appear. It is precisely the kind of dull, exhausting, unglamorous work that...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Three years ago, SAS was a cautionary tale. The Scandinavian flag carrier was in bankruptcy court, shedding aircraft, and being written off in the trade press as the next great European airline to disappear. In June 2026 it is doing something only a confident airline...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The opening chapter of Wings of War — From Zeppelin to Sixth Generation, our series on how military aviation was invented, one breakthrough at a time.It is the first of November, 1911, and a young Italian lieutenant named Giulio Gavotti is flying a flimsy Etrich...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
In a hangar outside Bengaluru, the most important aircraft India has built in a generation is being readied for the moment that matters most: leaving the ground. The Tejas Mk2 — bigger, sharper and far more capable than the little fighter that shares its name...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le lancement par catapulte est l'une des opérations les plus violentes de l'aviation : une accélération fulgurante de zéro à la vitesse de vol en deux secondes, un choc qui fait trembler les dents et plie l'acier. Le General Atomics Mojave s'en passe complètement. Ce drone est suffisamment imposant pour transporter des missiles et décolle avec une puissance impressionnante….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For most of 2026, Boeing was quietly winning. Through the first four months of the year, the American giant had handed over more jets than its European rival, and it looked as though the comeback story was finally taking shape. Then came May — and Airbus took it...
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