Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Il y a cinquante ans aujourd'hui, le 1er juillet 1976, le Musée national de l'air et de l'espace du Smithsonian ouvrait ses portes sur le National Mall à Washington, D.C. C'était un cadeau du bicentenaire à une nation qui venait de faire atterrir des hommes sur la Lune, de remporter la course à l'espace et de construire….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In September 1967, an ungainly four-engine turboprop lumbered off the runway at Nha Trang Air Base in South Vietnam. It looked like any other C-130 Hercules — the workhorse cargo plane that had been hauling troops, ammunition, and jeeps across theatre since the early...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Argentina went to war in the Falklands in April 1982 with five air-launched Exocet missiles. Five. That was the entire stock — France had delivered the AM39 variant along with a handful of Super Étendard strike fighters just months before the conflict began, and the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
An S7 Airlines Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of the runway at Mirny Airport in Russia’s Sakha Republic on June 30, coming to rest in mud beyond the paved surface. All 173 passengers and six crew members walked away without injury. But the incident — classified...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every aircraft on this list looked, on paper, like a brilliant idea. Each had serious money, serious engineering and serious ambition behind it. And each ended the same way: cancelled, scrapped or quietly buried after burning through a fortune, without ever doing the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture a fighter that cannot shoot straight ahead. No guns in the nose, none in the wings — nothing the pilot can aim simply by pointing the aircraft. Instead, all four machine guns sit in a powered turret behind the cockpit, worked by a second crewman. This...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
United Flight 1513, a Boeing 737-700 inbound from Key West with 106 people on board, is on final approach to Newark Liberty on a Friday afternoon when the crew sees a small circular object — perhaps three feet across — flash past about a hundred feet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It is just after six o’clock on a Saturday evening at Miami International Airport. American Airlines Flight 308, an Airbus A319 loaded with passengers bound for Bermuda, has been cleared onto Runway 8 and is beginning to roll. Then the crew sees something that...
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