Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On 28 May 2017, a photographer at Miho Air Base in western Japan took a picture of a Kawasaki C-2 transport, tail number 68-1203. It was an unremarkable aeroplane doing an unremarkable thing: a high-winged, T-tailed freighter on a ramp, clean-lined and entirely...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It looked like the future had landed on a dry lakebed in California: a needle-nosed, stiletto-slim jet built entirely for speed, sheathed in titanium, designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound. The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was the sleekest research aircraft of its...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the film Captain America, the villain escapes aboard a sleek, tailless flying wing. It looks like science fiction. It is not entirely invented: the design is lifted almost directly from a real German aircraft that flew in the last winter of the Second World War...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1939 the U.S. Army Air Corps did something unusual: it asked American industry to forget everything it knew about what a fighter should look like. The result included one of the strangest warplanes the country ever flew — a fighter with its engine at the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A carrier is only as capable as the people who work its deck. On 14 July 2026, the People’s Liberation Army Navy released imagery that made this point plainly: J-15-family fighters running full-cycle takeoff and landing training on land, methodically expanding the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At 34 minutes past the hour on 14 July, a single-seat Eurofighter in plain grey primer rolled down the runway at Airbus’s Manching site in Bavaria, lit its two EJ200 engines and climbed away. The aircraft carried the German military registration 34+02. It was the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Seen from the ground, it looked like an accident waiting to happen: a single-seat fighter — a Messerschmitt Bf 109 or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 — bolted rigidly to the spine of a twin-engined Junkers Ju 88 bomber, the two machines climbing away as one grotesque,...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Dans les années 1950, la tendance en matière d'avions militaires était claire : plus gros, plus lourds, plus complexes. Ed Heinemann, lui, allait à contre-courant. Lorsque l'US Navy demanda à Douglas un nouvel avion d'attaque à réaction, en imposant une limite de poids de 13 600 kg (30 000 livres), Heinemann proposa un projet qui….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le problème était d'ordre géométrique. En 1943, un barrage allemand était un mur de maçonnerie de plus de trente mètres d'épaisseur à sa base, protégé par des filets anti-torpilles dans l'eau et des canons antiaériens sur sa crête. Une bombe larguée en altitude manquerait sa cible ; une torpille s'accrocherait aux filets ; une mine….
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