Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On 31 July 1944, a twin-boomed Lightning climbed away from a dusty airfield on Corsica and turned north toward occupied France. At the controls was a 44-year-old French pilot who was really too old, too battered and too famous to be flying combat missions at all. He...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Farnborough 2026 has closed, and for once the headline is not a record. Boeing came out narrowly ahead of Airbus in the order race — but the show’s real story was how modest that race turned out to be. By Reuters’ tally, Boeing booked 173 orders to...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le chasseur furtif polonais était, jusqu'à présent, un produit d'exportation américain : construit à Fort Worth, au Texas, il était ensuite acheminé par avion à travers l'Atlantique. Cette semaine, la donne a changé. Le premier F-35A polonais assemblé en Europe a été livré sur la chaîne d'assemblage final de Leonardo à Cameri, en Italie….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
La révélation s'est faite sans démonstration aérienne, sans vrombissement de postcombustion. Le deuxième jour du Salon international de l'aéronautique de Farnborough, BAE Systems a dévoilé un avion gris mat, sans empennage, de la taille d'un Hawk d'entraînement, et a offert à la Grande-Bretagne son premier avion souverain...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Jakarta went shopping for a frontline fighter and came home, instead, with a very clever trainer that shoots back.At Farnborough on 21 July, Leonardo and its Indonesian partner PT ESystem Solutions signed a contract with Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence for 12...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Australia built the Ghost Bat. Europe, it turns out, has been quietly helping all along — and at Farnborough, Boeing finally said so out loud.On 21 July, MQ-28 Program Global Director Glen Ferguson confirmed that Italy’s Leonardo has become an official...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Sweden is giving Ukraine a fighter fleet. At Farnborough this week, the head of the Swedish Air Force explained how Sweden intends to avoid ending up smaller as a result. Major General Jonas Wikman told Breaking Defense that a further batch of twelve Gripen E fighters...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Skunk Works and FalconWorks are the two most secretive advanced-projects shops in Western aerospace. Lockheed Martin’s built the U-2, the SR-71 and the F-117. BAE Systems’ is the British equivalent, the place where the awkward, classified and interesting...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Militarily, Suez worked. In six days, Anglo-French air power destroyed the Egyptian Air Force largely on the ground, paratroops took an airfield, Royal Marines made the first helicopter assault in the history of warfare, and the invasion force held the northern end of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On the morning of 16 July, two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoons met in European airspace and took fuel from a French A330 Phenix tanker. No weapons were carried. The manoeuvres were unremarkable. Any air force in NATO does this on a quiet Tuesday....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For a single year, Italy believed it had built the first jet aeroplane in history. On 27 August 1940, a sleek, barrel-shaped machine howled into the sky over Milan with no propeller anywhere to be seen — and the world’s aviation authority duly recorded it as the first...
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