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...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Britain owns a fleet of the most capable aerial tankers on the market — and cannot use them to refuel some of its own most important aircraft. It is one of the quiet embarrassments of the Royal Air Force, and after fifteen years the RAF has finally said out loud that...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
The fiercest duel at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow will not be flown by any display pilot. It will be fought across a conference table, over roughly one hundred single-aisle jets and the signature of one Dublin-based leasing giant.Boeing and Airbus are...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Canada already knows what its next fighter looks like: the F-35A, dozens of which are on order. And yet Ottawa has just reached for a very different aircraft — one being designed in London, Rome and Tokyo. Reporting on July 15 said Canada has agreed to join the Global...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
It was fitting that the promise came in Paris. On 14 July — France’s national day — President Emmanuel Macron stood alongside Volodymyr Zelensky at the close of a “Coalition of the Willing” summit and announced that Ukraine had agreed a plan to acquire 16 Rafale...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Le 14 juillet à 10 h 25, la Patrouille de France franchit l'Arc de Triomphe et déploya trois rubans bleu, blanc et rouge sur toute la longueur des Champs-Élysées. Derrière elle, un flot d'avions à réaction. Et pour la première fois dans la longue histoire de….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Les passagers du vol VS135 de Virgin Atlantic ont embarqué à Heathrow lundi après-midi, s'attendant à des palmiers et des parcs d'attractions. Cinq heures plus tard, ils descendaient les mêmes escaliers dans le même aéroport londonien, pas plus près d'Orlando qu'au départ — mais un bon...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Ottawa has made a choice that says as much about politics as it does about firepower. Canada will arm its future F-35A fleet with the Joint Strike Missile, the Norwegian-built cruise weapon that tucks inside the Lightning II’s belly without spoiling its stealth. Prime...
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