Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
When the Patrouille de France’s nine blue-and-white Alphajets sweep over the Champs-Élysées on July 14, they won’t be alone. Flanking them will be two Mirage 2000Bs crewed by Franco-Ukrainian teams — the opening act of the largest Bastille Day aerial...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It is now firm. Saab has signed a contract for 16 Gripen E fighters destined for Ukraine — turning the spring’s letter of intent into a binding deal and committing one of the West’s most capable light fighters to the Ukrainian Air Force.The contract,...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At 1:54pm on June 30, a Bulgarian MiG-29 lit its afterburners and clawed off the runway at Graf Ignatievo. Three minutes later it had formed up on the wing of a civilian Airbus A320 that had just transmitted the four digits every air-defence controller dreads:...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il est presque onze heures, dans la nuit du 11 novembre 1940, et le lieutenant de vaisseau Kenneth “ Hooch ” Williamson fait descendre son Fairey Swordfish à travers la DCA au-dessus du port de Tarente. Des fusées éclairantes au magnésium flottent dans le ciel, projetant les navires ancrés….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The Germans had a word for it. They always do. When Luftwaffe pilots talked about the Panavia Tornado, they called it the eierlegende Wollmilchsau — the “egg-laying wool-milk pig.” A mythical creature that does everything: lays eggs, produces wool, gives...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
À plus de 300 kilomètres de la frontière de l'OTAN la plus proche, la Serbie construit un réseau de défense aérienne conçu par Pékin et non approuvé par aucune alliance occidentale. Le 28 juin, le président Aleksandar Vučić a confirmé ce que les analystes de la défense soupçonnaient depuis des mois : Belgrade est en train de….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It begins, as these things often do, not with a missile but with a laptop. Somewhere in the cavernous cargo hold of a French A400M Atlas — a hold built to swallow a helicopter or a 37-tonne armoured vehicle — an operator will soon sit at a console, watching sensor...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Walk the static line at ILA Berlin and you expect the usual choreography around a helicopter: a pilot strapping in, a crew chief signalling, the slow whine of an Arriel engine spooling up. This June, Airbus parked something stranger under the Brandenburg sun. The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the Farnborough air show in 1953, the crowd hears it before they see it. Ten engines, building from a hum to a roar, and then the largest all-metal flying boat ever built slides overhead — a silver whale of an aircraft, a 219-foot wing, an ocean liner that...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Step onto a Lufthansa A321 at Frankfurt this year and you might find yourself aboard a flying time machine. One aircraft in the fleet, registration D-AISZ, wears a design no airline has flown in earnest for half a century: a deep blue cheatline trimmed in yellow that...
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