Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
De temps à autre, un avion de chasse fait son apparition et s'impose si nettement dans sa catégorie que le débat s'arrête net. Le Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor est cet appareil. Il a surclassé un prototype rival, redéfini les attentes vis-à-vis des avions de chasse et est entré en service comme le plus performant….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Dawn over Kadena, and the concrete is already trembling. Two Pratt & Whitney turbofans spool up behind a jet the size of a small barn, the pilot walks the throttles into afterburner, and for a heartbeat the whole world is noise. Then the nose comes up — and keeps...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
La plupart des pilotes de chasse suivent le même parcours étroit : école de pilotage, commission, cockpit avant même d’avoir l’âge légal pour louer une voiture sans supplément. Kenneth Gilmore, lui, a fait ses débuts dans le football américain. Avant même de jouer au football, il dessinait des tactiques sur un….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Somewhere over the Nevada high desert, a young American fighter pilot rolls into a turn and sees something that should not exist. A stubby, silver dart is sliding into formation off his wing — snub nose, sharp delta, a red star where a national insignia ought to be....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some Cold War weapons were terrifying. A few were beautiful. And then there was the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — a machine that looked like a flying saucer had mated with a submarine, and was built, in all seriousness, to stalk and kill American nuclear missile boats. It...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Autumn, 1933. On a grass airfield outside Kharkiv, a shape rolls out of its hangar that looks less like an aeroplane and more like a building that has decided to fly. Its wing stretches 53 metres from tip to tip — thick enough for a grown man to walk inside it and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The first thing the crowd at Zhukovsky hears is the noise; the second thing it notices is that something is badly wrong with the wings. A dark, whale-nosed fighter comes howling low across the airfield, and its wings — unmistakably, impossibly — appear to have been...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest in history, and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Denmark has decided how it will watch the top of the world. On Jul. 7, 2026, the Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed a provisional decision to buy two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — long-range sub-hunters built to prowl the North Atlantic and the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On Jul. 6, 2026, a new shape crossed into Czech airspace: a twin-engined, high-tailed jet transport in a distinctive three-tone grey, escorted the last stretch home by a pair of Saab JAS 39 Gripens. The newcomer was the Czech Air Force’s first Embraer C-390...
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