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...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Northwest of Hanoi runs a long spine of mountains called the Tam Dao range. The men who flew the Republic F-105 Thunderchief against North Vietnam never called it that. They named it after their airplane — and after what happened to so many of them beside it. They...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
C'est le soir du 27 octobre 1962, et à bord du sous-marin soviétique B-59, quelque part au nord de Cuba, la température a dépassé les 45 degrés Celsius et l'air se raréfie. Les batteries sont presque à plat. Des hommes s'évanouissent à leurs postes. Pendant des heures, les sous-mariniers américains...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 28 July 1944, P-51 pilots of the 359th Fighter Group were escorting B-17s away from Merseburg when someone called out contrails high at six o’clock. Two stubby, tailless shapes came slicing down through the formation faster than anything the Americans had...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
A few minutes past midnight on 24 January 1961, a Mark 39 hydrogen bomb drifted down through the winter darkness over Wayne County, North Carolina, swinging beneath a 30-metre (100-foot) parachute. It settled nose-first into a field near the hamlet of Faro and came to...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Au large des côtes sud de l'Angleterre, une petite aile volante noire a été catapultée depuis le pont d'un navire de la Royal Navy en mouvement, propulsée par un turboréacteur vrombissant, puis a rejoint sa cible. Sans pilote, sans possibilité de récupération, sans seconde chance : le Nyan est conçu pour voler….
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under — and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to become the...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Among the tall ships and grey hulls that filled New York Harbor for America’s 250th birthday, the strangest silhouette wasn’t a ship at all. Lashed to the flight deck of USS Nimitz, between rows of Super Hornets, sat a windowless grey machine with folded wings and no...
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was actually waiting for...
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...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, residents of the Los Angeles suburbs looked up to a strange and frankly alarming sight: two jet fighters chasing a lone, pilotless aircraft in tightening circles, hurling rockets at it — and missing, again and again, while the...
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