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
At a quarter to three in the afternoon on 18 December 1972, the concrete at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, began to shake. The first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress released its brakes, eight engines trailing black smoke from water-injected takeoff power, and lumbered...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from Moscow toward a...
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...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 22:47 on 24 April 1980, a blacked-out MC-130 thumped down on a salt flat 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Tehran, and the most secret mission in America promptly met the public. Headlights. A Mercedes bus, forty-plus Iranian civilians aboard, rolling straight...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
At 07:55 on the morning of 18 April 1988, a voice crackled from the destroyer USS Merrill across the VHF band, first in Farsi, then in English: the occupants of the Sassan gas and oil separation platform had five minutes to leave. On the steel decks above the green...
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 23 May 1943, a German fighter ace named Adolf Galland climbed into an aircraft with no propeller. He opened the throttles, felt a shove of thrust unlike anything a piston engine had ever given him, and afterwards reached for the only words that fit: it was, he...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The most important document in the history of stealth aircraft was not written in California or at a secret desert airfield. It was written in Moscow, in Russian, by a Soviet physicist — and the Soviet Union let it go abroad because it decided the work was of no...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Dans l'histoire des avions de chasse, on oublie presque toujours le finaliste. L'appareil qui perd la compétition se voit attribuer une plaque commémorative dans un musée, s'il a de la chance, tandis que le vainqueur obtient la production en série. Le Northrop YF-17 Cobra est la grande exception. Il a perdu – et pourtant….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Il y a les gros avions, et puis il y avait le Mriya. Se tenir sous un Boeing 747, c'est se sentir petit. Se tenir sous un An-225, c'est le 747 qui paraît minuscule. Pendant 33 ans, un seul exemplaire de cette machine a existé : un géant soviétique à six moteurs conçu pour un seul avion….
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