Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le Pentagone souhaite déployer 500 drones en essaim. Pas dans un avenir lointain, pas en théorie. Actuellement, la DARPA lance un appel d'offres pour des systèmes de drones autonomes conteneurisés, capables de lancer, récupérer et coordonner des constellations de jusqu'à 500 aéronefs sans pilote depuis….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Mouammar Kadhafi a tracé une ligne à travers la Méditerranée et a mis au défi la marine américaine de la franchir. La marine l'a franchie à deux reprises. À chaque fois, les F-14 Tomcat ont répondu. Les deux incidents du golfe de Syrte — en 1981 et 1989 — sont les seules victoires aériennes américaines des années 1980.
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Somewhere off the coast of Oman, in the dark, two U.S. Army aviators are treading water. Their AH-64 Apache is gone — minutes ago it was flying a patrol near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, and now it is at the bottom of the Gulf. They are alive, but they are in...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On the first morning of June, an Air Canada jet pushed back at Montreal and pointed its nose at Nantes, a tidy French city on the Loire that no Canadian airline had ever served nonstop. Two days later, a widebody lifted off from Toronto bound for Shanghai for the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
A small white jet with a chequered flag down its flank taxied to a stop outside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on a bright Saturday in June, and a 9-year-old’s dream from 1962 finally landed. The pilot who climbed down was Ed Noel. The aircraft was...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On a Friday afternoon in Shanghai, executives from China Eastern Airlines and Airbus signed their names to a document that quietly reshapes the balance of power in the world’s most fought-over aviation market. The deal: 25 brand-new Airbus A330-900neo widebodies, with...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
There are ugly aeroplanes, and then there is the Transavia Airtruk. It looks like a garden shed, a greenhouse and a barn door got into an argument and were forced to fly home together. It is so otherworldly that the filmmakers behind Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome cast it...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy asked an audacious question: what if a jet fighter did not need a runway, or even an aircraft carrier? What if it could simply take off from the open sea? Convair’s answer was one of the strangest warplanes ever flown — a delta-winged...
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