Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 12 August 1944, a 29-year-old naval aviator climbed into a Liberator bomber that had been stripped of its guns and filled, wingtip to wingtip, with explosives. He did not have to be there. He had flown his tour and earned his ticket home. His name...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In the 1950s the U.S. Navy watched the Air Force build a fleet of long-range bombers to carry the nation’s nuclear deterrent — and decided it wanted in. Its answer was one of the strangest and most beautiful warplanes America ever built: a swept-wing jet...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
En 1943, un ingénieur de 33 ans promit à l'armée de l'air américaine un avion de chasse à réaction en 180 jours. Il loua un chapiteau de cirque, l'installa à côté d'une usine de plastique nauséabonde à Burbank, isola une poignée d'ingénieurs triés sur le volet et livra le prototype XP-80 en….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Le 15 novembre 1988, un engin spatial ressemblant presque trait pour trait à la navette spatiale américaine s'éleva du cosmodrome de Baïkonour sur une colonne de flammes, fit deux fois le tour de la Terre et atterrit sur une piste malgré un vent de travers de 60 km/h — sans personne à bord et sans….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il n'était ni rapide, ni élégant, ni performant en combat aérien rapproché. Pendant trente ans, lorsque le temps se gâtait et que la cible restait dissimulée sous les nuages et l'obscurité qui clouaient au sol tout le reste, l'US Navy envoyait le Grumman A-6 Intruder. Subsonique, à nez court et….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet climbed at more than 3,600 metres per minute — so fast that Allied bomber crews, seeing it for the first time in the summer of 1944, could scarcely track it. In a single breathtaking arc it could reach the bombers, fire, and be...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At the height of the Battle of Britain, with his fighter pilots being blamed for the bombers falling out of the sky, a young German ace was asked by the head of the Luftwaffe what he needed to turn things around. Adolf Galland, cigar clenched in his teeth, gave an...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Il abattit plus d'avions ennemis que n'importe quel autre chasseur allié de la Première Guerre mondiale, et il causa la mort d'un nombre effroyable de jeunes hommes envoyés pour le piloter, avant même qu'ils n'affrontent un Allemand. Le Sopwith Camel était le meilleur chasseur de 1917 et un véritable piège….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of 1 April 2001, a lumbering American spy plane and a hot-rod Chinese fighter touched wingtips over the South China Sea. One aircraft limped away with its nose torn off and 24 terrified people aboard. The other broke in half and fell into the sea,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Earlier this year the RAF’s first E-7 Wedgetail spent a period at a Wiltshire airfield most people have never heard of, having its systems activated and its radar calibrated, before it was allowed anywhere near an operational squadron. That is not unusual....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Every bomb ever built before 1944 was designed to hit the thing it was aimed at. Barnes Wallis built two that were designed to land next to it. This was not a compromise or an admission that bombing was inaccurate. It was the entire principle. Wallis had worked out...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
When Iranian missiles struck an air base in eastern Jordan last Friday and killed American servicemen, the base was identified in every report by its name: Muwaffaq Salti. Almost nobody outside Jordan knows who that was. He was a first lieutenant in the Royal...
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