Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are still waiting,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des mois, le programme d'avions de combat le plus ambitieux d'Europe a souffert d'un manque criant : le financement. Le 3 juillet 2026, ce manque a été comblé. Le Royaume-Uni, l'Italie et le Japon ont signé un contrat de 4,6 milliards de livres sterling ($6,1 milliards) pour accélérer le développement de leur avion de combat de sixième génération….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It is 107 degrees on the range tower at Gila Bend, and a photographer is shielding his camera in the shade between passes so it will not overheat. Then the sound arrives — that unmistakable, chest-rattling BRRRT — and an A-10C Thunderbolt II drops out of the Arizona...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward the vertical until...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in half, tore the...
À l'intérieur de MiGFlug, Nouvelles
Quelque part au large des côtes de Floride, à plus de mille kilomètres à l'heure, un homme portant un casque à oxygène a déballé un cheesesteak, en a pris une bouchée et a fait une grimace qu'on ne voit d'habitude que dans les montagnes russes. Apparemment, c'est ça qu'il faut maintenant pour vendre un sandwich….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 7 August 1942, over an island the Americans had invaded that very morning, a .30-calibre bullet passed through Saburō Sakai’s skull. It blinded his right eye and paralysed his left side. He was 560 nautical miles from home, alone, at war, in a fighter with no...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four rebuilt engines ran sweetly. Half a century of Arctic exile was about to...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Just after eight on the morning of 29 April 1975, American Radio Service in Saigon interrupted its programming to announce that the temperature was “105 degrees and rising.” Then it played White Christmas. In a city where it never snows, in the last April...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines, close, and getting...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 16 August 1966, an Iraqi Air Force captain named Munir Redfa strapped into his MiG-21F-13 for what his squadron believed was a routine long-range training sortie. He had full fuel tanks — a privilege he had rarely been granted — and a...
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