Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On October 6, 1971, an aircraft appeared over the Sinai Peninsula that no Israeli fighter could catch. It flew at Mach 3.2 — faster than a rifle bullet — at an altitude above 24,000 metres. Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept. They fired missiles....
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical Aerospace’s full-scale...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Seventy-five hours. More than three days. That is how long the K1000ULE unmanned aircraft can stay airborne on a single mission — circling, watching, and relaying intelligence without landing. On April 7, 2026, U.S. Air Forces Central Command awarded Kraus Hamdani...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The United States Air Force just invited the tech industry to build artificial intelligence data centres on some of the most remote military installations in America. The offer: 4,700 acres of underutilised land across three bases in Alaska. The requirement: at least...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
A company that did not exist seven years ago just raised $350 million to build unmanned aircraft that fly faster than any operational military jet on Earth. Hermeus, a defence aviation startup founded in 2018, closed its Series C round on April 7, 2026, reaching a $1...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The United States Air Force’s next air superiority fighter — the Boeing F-47, the centrepiece of the Next Generation Air Dominance programme — is slipping further behind schedule. Senior lawmakers and defence analysts now project that the aircraft will not reach...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On March 3, 2026, an Iranian ballistic missile struck one of the most valuable single pieces of military hardware the United States has ever deployed overseas. The target was not a warship, not an airfield, and not a command centre. It was a radar — a three-faced,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and cracked two ribs...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered production in 1959,...
Histoire et légendes, Nouvelles
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
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