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
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
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...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine Airlines has reportedly...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping while Airbus...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
La première fois qu'on l'entend, on le ressent avant même de le comprendre : un hurlement profond et ascendant qui vous remonte dans la nuque et vous fait vibrer la poitrine tandis qu'une vaste ombre triangulaire balaie le ciel. Pour des générations de spectateurs britanniques de meetings aériens, ce son signifiait une seule chose : le….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il s'agit peut-être du plus bel avion jamais mis en mer par l'US Navy : long, d'une élégance rare, doté d'une double dérive et conçu pour décoller d'un porte-avions à deux fois la vitesse du son. Le North American A-5 Vigilante semblait tout droit sorti d'une autre époque….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the first months of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi Zero was a nightmare. It could out-climb, out-turn and out-accelerate the stubby Grumman Wildcats the U.S. Navy sent against it, and American pilots who tried to fight it on its own terms — twisting, turning,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line — it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England — but because almost every ally in between refused to let the aircraft...
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