Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s enormous new J-36...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
L'aéronef qui inquiète le plus les commandants de bases aériennes américaines en 2026 n'est ni un chasseur furtif chinois, ni un bombardier russe. Il s'agit d'un quadricoptère à batterie qui coûte moins cher qu'un ordinateur portable d'occasion, et rien n'empêche un appareil hostile de survoler la clôture d'une base...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear that the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Les États-Unis prévoient de s'appuyer sur l'AGM-181 pour maintenir la crédibilité de leur dissuasion nucléaire aéroportée jusque dans les années 2050. Pour ce faire, un seul appareil est autorisé à tester ce missile : le B-52, un bombardier dont le dernier exemplaire est sorti des chaînes de production en 1962. Le plus récent….
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The most expensive gift in the history of aviation sat gleaming on the ramp in Turkey — and the President of the United States walked straight past it. On 8 July, barely a day after American bombs fell on Iran, Donald Trump boarded the old Air Force One, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Fréjus, on the Côte d’Azur, 23 September 1913, 5:47 in the morning. The sea is still grey, the air smells of salt and the burnt castor oil that every rotary engine of the era coughs over its pilot. A small, dark-eyed man settles into a Morane-Saulnier G — a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Gate 15 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a few minutes past midnight on the last day of August 1983. A Boeing 747 sits in the floodlights, doors open, while 246 passengers file aboard: businessmen bound for Taipei and Hong Kong, honeymooners, grandparents,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from Moscow toward a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky, foreign parachutists...
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