Les 34 plus grands as de l'aviation de l'histoire : notre nouvelle série quotidienne commence demain
What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history, one every day...
Les sorcières de la nuit soviétiques : elles volaient sans parachute
The engine dies. The plywood biplane goes silent, gliding through the black Ukrainian sky at 1,200 metres. Below, German searchlights sweep the darkness. Flak crews wait, listening. They hear nothing — just a faint whisper of wind through wire struts. Then the bombs...
Vert chirurgical à Mach 2 : le mystère du cockpit du MiG-21
Pénétrez dans le cockpit d'un MiG-21 et la première chose qui vous frappe, ce n'est ni l'étroitesse de la verrière ni le mur de cadrans analogiques. C'est la couleur. Chaque surface — le cadre du tableau de bord, les consoles latérales, les rails de la verrière — est peinte d'une teinte saisissante….
Why They Call It the Viper
Most aircraft are designed to fly straight and level by default. Take your hands off the controls and they glide on, stable, content, reassuring. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is not like most aircraft. Take your hands off the controls in an F-16 and it will try to kill...
Operation Bolo: The Trap That Broke North Vietnam’s Air Force
January 2, 1967. Colonel Robin Olds — World War II ace, Vietnam War wing commander, and possibly the most dangerous man ever to strap into a fighter jet — had a problem. North Vietnam’s MiG-21s were shooting down American aircraft with near impunity. The rules...
The Enemy Pilot Who Escorted Us Home
Franz Stigler had one kill to go. One more aircraft, and he would earn the Knight’s Cross — the highest military honour the Luftwaffe could bestow. He had fought across North Africa and was now flying Bf 109s over Germany, defending the Reich from the waves of...
The Tail That Won MiG Alley
In the summer of 1951, American F-86A pilots over North Korea were dying. Not because the MiG-15 was faster. Not because the North Korean and Chinese pilots were better. They were dying because at around Mach 0.86 — the speed at which the Sabre’s tail control...
1,842 Knots: The SR-71’s Famous Speed Check
Thirteen miles above Southern California, moving at roughly a mile every two seconds, Major Brian Shul and his backseat reconnaissance officer Walt were monitoring Los Angeles Center radio traffic when the entertainment started. A Cessna pilot had asked for a ground...
The Captain Dangling at 17,000 Feet: How a Crew of Heroes Saved British Airways Flight 5390
At 7:33 in the morning on June 10, 1990, British Airways Captain Tim Lancaster was sitting in his seat at 17,300 feet over Oxfordshire when his windscreen exploded outward — and he went with it. What followed in the next twenty minutes is one of the most extraordinary...
Un demi-avion, un équipage entier : la véritable histoire du B-17 “ All American ” de la Seconde Guerre mondiale”
Le 1er février 1943, un bombardier Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress rentra de Tunisie avec son empennage à peine fixé, relié au reste de l'appareil par quelques longerons métalliques et une bande de tôle d'aluminium. Les dix hommes à bord ignoraient si….
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