Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
From this December, a British holidaymaker will be able to board a Boeing 787 at London Gatwick and step off it on a beach in southern Thailand — no change of plane, no Gulf stopover. Norse Atlantic Airways has announced a new nonstop service between Gatwick and...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
United Airlines just turned a Boeing 787-10 into a flying flag. On 15 June 2026, the carrier rolled out a bold “Stars and Stripes” special livery — a deep blue fuselage, fifty white stars, and diagonal red-and-white stripes sweeping across the tail...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When you buy a front-line fighter, you also have to solve a quieter problem: how to train the pilots who will fly it. On 16 June 2026, Canada took a major step toward an answer — and the jet it chose is Italian. On the sidelines of the G7 summit in France,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
High over the Mediterranean on 1 June 2026, a French Rafale pushed past the speed of sound and let a missile go. The moment of separation — missile leaving the rail of a jet travelling faster than sound — is one of the most violent things a weapon can be...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For the first time ever, you can fly from Alaska to New England without stopping. On 13 June 2026, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 lifted off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International and pointed its nose almost due east, bound for Boston — roughly eight hours and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 16 juin 2026, deux des spectacles les plus rares du combat aérien moderne se partageaient le ciel de l'Arkansas : un F-22 Raptor et un F-35 aux couleurs de l'armée de l'air finlandaise, volant aile contre aile. L'un était conçu pour dominer le ciel ; l'autre pour tout observer….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Over the flat plains of Çorlu in north-western Turkey this spring, a jet trainer and a tailless black drone flew in tight formation. Nothing unusual in that — except that no one was flying the drone. The pilot doing the commanding sat in the other aircraft entirely,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des décennies, “ avion de chasse ” signifiait un pilote humain installé dans un cockpit. Le 17 juin 2026, l'US Air Force a discrètement mis fin à ce monopole. Elle a signé des contrats de production pour deux avions de combat à réaction sans cockpit, sans siège éjectable et sans pilote….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was a bright, ordinary afternoon in Florida. At about two o’clock on 5 December 1945, five Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers rumbled off the runway at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise. Fourteen men, a clear sky, a familiar patch of...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 75,000 feet over the Baltic Sea, the world is dark blue above and curved below, and the only sound in the cockpit is the hiss of the pressure suit. On the morning of 29 June 1987, that calm ended with a bang.The right engine of Lt. Col. Duane Noll’s SR-71 Blackbird...
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