Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of January 2, 1967, a formation of aircraft appeared on North Vietnamese radar screens approaching Hanoi from the west. To the radar operators at Phuc Yen and Gia Lam airfields, the electronic signatures looked familiar: F-105 Thunderchiefs, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of February 20, 1959, workers arrived at Avro Canada’s sprawling plant in Malton, Ontario, and were handed slips of paper that said one thing: you are dismissed. By lunchtime, 14,000 people were out of work. By the following weeks, engineers who...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had spent years in the Arizona boneyard rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: “Apocalypse II.” Serial...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The future of urban air mobility is no longer a PowerPoint fantasy. In April 2026, Joby Aviation completed a landmark demonstration flight from JFK Airport to Manhattan in just seven minutes — a journey that can take over an hour by car during rush hour. With the FAA...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a grey Welsh morning in early May, hikers lining the ridges above Cadair Idris heard the unmistakable rumble of twin Pratt & Whitney F100 engines reverberating off granite walls. Then it appeared: an F-15E Strike Eagle wearing a paint scheme that had not graced...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In early May 2026, a deplaning incident at Newark Liberty International Airport became the latest flashpoint in America’s turbulent relationship with air travel etiquette — but with a twist no one expected. The woman at the center of the controversy filmed and...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional hearings, and a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On paper, the C-5 Galaxy is the most capable military transport aircraft ever built by the Western world. In practice, on any given day in 2025, 63 percent of the fleet is broken. That number — 37 percent mission capable — is not a rounding error or a statistical...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Summer hasn’t officially started, but the chaos arrived early. On May 12, 2026, a cascade of delays, cancellations, and ground stops swept across American airports like a storm front — which, in many cases, it literally was. Phoenix Sky Harbor International...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On a clear Sunday morning in late April, a small white aircraft with six tilting propellers lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport and headed northwest toward the gleaming towers of Midtown Manhattan. Seven minutes later, it touched down at the East...
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