Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Aux Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936, un adolescent écossais fut emmené en vol par un as de l'aviation de la Première Guerre mondiale. À l'atterrissage, l'Allemand lui dit deux choses : apprendre à piloter et apprendre l'allemand. Le garçon fit les deux et, devenu adulte, il pilota plus d'avions différents que quiconque.
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and the young pilot...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
La plupart des pilotes de chasse suivent le même parcours étroit : école de pilotage, commission, cockpit avant même d’avoir l’âge légal pour louer une voiture sans supplément. Kenneth Gilmore, lui, a fait ses débuts dans le football américain. Avant même de jouer au football, il dessinait des tactiques sur un….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For a week in the summer of 1976, more than a hundred people sat on the floor of a disused airport terminal in the heart of Africa, four thousand kilometres from home, and waited to find out whether they would be murdered. They had been separated — Israelis and Jews...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Gate 15 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a few minutes past midnight on the last day of August 1983. A Boeing 747 sits in the floodlights, doors open, while 246 passengers file aboard: businessmen bound for Taipei and Hong Kong, honeymooners, grandparents,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The morning of 5 May 1935 smelled of dust, spring grass and engine oil. On a new airfield outside Ankara, the young Turkish Republic was opening a flight school with the kind of ceremony it loved best: gliders wheeling against the Anatolian sky, foreign parachutists...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The sirens came before the sunrise. In Manama’s old quarters and along Kuwait City’s waterfront towers, the same rising wail that Gulf residents have learned by heart this year pulled families out of bed and into stairwells in the small hours of Wednesday...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a summer day in 1965, workers and fishermen along the Ob River near Novosibirsk heard a scream of jet engines and looked up just in time to see something their minds could barely accept: a MiG-17 fighter, flashing low over the water — and then vanishing under the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a spring morning in May 2026, a big blue Grumman Avenger lifted off over Hamilton, Ontario, and climbed into the sky for the first time in decades. In the cockpit was pilot James Bradley. Watching from the ground was a small group of people who had spent seventeen...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of Saturday, 27 October 1962, Major Rudolf “Rudy” Anderson Jr. was sealed into his pressure suit at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. He was not on the schedule that day — he had lobbied hard for the mission. It would be his sixth flight over...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 27 February 1959, three British oilmen were driving across a gravel plain deep in the Libyan Sahara, hundreds of miles from anything, when a twin-tailed shape rose out of the heat shimmer. It was an American heavy bomber, broken in two just behind the wings, lying...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The thermometer read over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd on the National Mall had been baking since morning, and somewhere above the haze four F-5 Tigers were pulling into formation. One of them was flown by the administrator of NASA himself. It was 1:14 p.m. on...
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