Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Two missiles slammed into the Karaj B1 bridge on April 2 and turned Iran’s tallest road structure into rubble. Five days later, on April 7, strikes hit a highway bridge west of Qom and the Yahyaabad railway bridge near Kashan, killing at least two more people...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of August 9, 1896, Otto Lilienthal took off from a hillside near Stölln, Germany, in his standard monoplane glider — the same machine he had flown hundreds of times before. A sudden gust caught him wrong. The glider stalled. He fell from about 15...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quick Facts Pilot Sub-Lieutenant Ian “Soapy” Watson, Royal Navy Aircraft British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.1 (serial ZA176) Date June 1, 1983 Ship MV Alraigo — a Spanish container vessel Location Atlantic Ocean, approximately 50 miles south of the Canary...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quick Facts Operation Black Buck 1 (first of seven missions, April 30 – May 1, 1982) Aircraft Avro Vulcan B.2 (XM607, 101 Squadron RAF) Crew Captain Flight Lieutenant Martin Withers Distance ~8,000 miles round trip (Ascension Island to Port Stanley and back) Flight...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Quick Facts Company Vertical Aerospace (Bristol, UK) Aircraft Full-scale VX4 demonstrator (piloted) Milestone First piloted thrustborne-to-wingborne transition flight Test Pilot Paul Stone Location Cotswold Airport, southwest England Date April 2, 2026 Production...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Quick Facts Airport San Francisco International Airport (SFO) What Changed FAA permanently banned simultaneous side-by-side landings on parallel runways 28L and 28R Runway Separation 750 feet — closer than any other major U.S. hub Capacity Impact Arrival rate cut from...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Related: Mystery in the Sky: RQ-180 Stealth Drone Photographed Over Greece Quick Facts Aircraft Northrop Grumman RQ-180 (classified stealth reconnaissance UAV) Nickname “Lady of Larissa” (informal, from spotting community) Sighting Date April 6, 2026 —...
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