Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
À l'automne 1980, des ingénieurs américains ont fixé trente roquettes sur un C-130 Hercules. Le plan était à la fois insensé et d'un sérieux implacable : faire atterrir le quadrimoteur dans un stade de football au cœur de Téhéran, l'immobiliser à l'intérieur du terrain, y embarquer cinquante-deux soldats américains….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the late 1950s the US Army went looking for a machine that no one had ever quite built: something between a jeep and a helicopter. A flying jeep — a simple platform a soldier could stand on, lift straight up, and buzz over a battlefield. It sounds like a cartoon....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On paper, the Rockwell XFV-12 was a dream: a supersonic, Mach-2 fighter that could rise straight up off a small ship’s deck, fight like an F-4 Phantom, and land vertically in a space no runway could offer. The US Navy wanted it badly. Rockwell promised it could be...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly recorded it as the first...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1942, someone at General Motors had a tidy idea: instead of designing a new fighter from scratch, why not bolt one together from parts of aircraft that already existed? Take a Mustang’s wings, a dive-bomber’s tail, a Corsair’s landing gear, wrap them around the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It looked like the future had landed on a dry lakebed in California: a needle-nosed, stiletto-slim jet built entirely for speed, sheathed in titanium, designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest research aircraft of its...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Everyone knows the Lockheed A-12 and its famous descendant, the SR-71 Blackbird — the black, Mach-3 spy planes that outran every missile ever fired at them. Almost nobody remembers the aircraft that nearly beat them to the job: Convair’s Kingfish, an angular,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It could out-climb an F-16, scramble from cold to airborne in under half a minute, and fire a radar missile years before its rival could. It was cheap to run, brilliant to fly, and paid for entirely out of one company’s own pocket. And it sold exactly none. The...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Before there was radar, before there were reliable instruments, before anyone had crossed the United States without landing, there was a quiet Army lieutenant named John Macready — a man who spent the early 1920s collecting aviation “firsts” the way other...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At a thousand feet over Wiltshire, pulling out of a vertical dive at five times the force of gravity, Neil Williams heard a bang and felt the airframe lurch. His left wing had begun to fold up. In the next few seconds, the British aerobatic champion did something so...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Il y a trois ans, Neros n'était qu'un atelier animé par deux anciens adolescents passionnés de courses de drones. Cette semaine, l'armée américaine a attribué à cette start-up un contrat pouvant atteindre 14 000,5 milliards de dollars pour la construction de drones d'attaque à vision subjective — des armes bon marché et consommables qui ont bouleversé les règles de la guerre….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des années, une rumeur persistante, parmi les plus futuristes, concernant le nouveau bombardier furtif américain était qu'il pourrait se passer d'un équipage important : le B-21 Raider pourrait voler avec un seul pilote, voire sans aucun pilote à terme. Ce mois-ci, l'armée de l'air a mis fin à ces spéculations avec….
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