Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Everything a combat pilot knows about dropping a bomb assumes air. Thick air, at sensible altitudes, where wings generate predictable lift, engines produce rated thrust, and a weapon released at a known speed follows a known arc to the ground. In May 1999 the Indian...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Dimanche soir, un journaliste présent à la base aérienne d'Andrews a posé une question directe au président Trump : l'avion qatari qu'il utilise actuellement comme Air Force One n'est pas équipé de systèmes antimissiles, alors pourquoi le pilote-t-il ? La réponse a confirmé ce que les spécialistes de l'aviation et de la sécurité s'attendaient à voir….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 2005 on 17 May 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was told that an Iraqi aircraft had left the mainland and was heading south down the Persian Gulf. This was not alarming. Iraqi aircraft did this most nights, hunting tankers carrying Iranian oil, and they...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The A Shau valley, 10 March 1966. A Special Forces camp is being overrun by two thousand North Vietnamese regulars. The hills either side rise fifteen hundred feet and the cloud base is at eight hundred, which means any aircraft coming to help has to fly below the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Tous les débats sur les avions de combat autonomes finissent par aboutir à la même question, et elle n'est pas d'ordre technique. Il s'agit de savoir si le pilote fera confiance à l'appareil qui évolue sous son aile. Frank Kendall, qui a dirigé l'US Air Force en tant que secrétaire à l'aviation civile de...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The air base is named after a man who died in an aeroplane. Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot, killed in combat with Israeli fighters on 13 November 1966 during the Battle of Samu. Jordan gave his name to the base at Azraq, out in the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
If you happened to be at Birmingham Airport on the afternoon of 15 July, you would have seen something that looked like a mistake: a Boeing 737 with a large rectangular fin bolted to its spine, painted an unlovely metallic green, climbing out over the West Midlands....
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il y a deux semaines, on ne parlait que du retour des avions à leur base. Des Raptors quittaient le Golfe pour l'Angleterre, des escadrons étaient relevés, le cessez-le-feu était suffisamment respecté pour que l'US Air Force puisse réduire sa présence dans la région. Cette situation a évolué le temps d'écrire ces lignes….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On the morning of 16 July, two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoons met in European airspace and took fuel from a French A330 Phenix tanker. No weapons were carried. The manoeuvres were unremarkable. Any air force in NATO does this on a quiet Tuesday....
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Everyone knows who first broke the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager, October 1947, the orange Bell X-1, a rib strapped up with a broom handle. It is one of the great stories in aviation. But there is a second name that belongs beside it — a quiet engineer from Tennessee...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas DC-8 — the same...
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