Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Some aircraft look wrong. The Blohm & Voss BV 141 looks impossible. The crew sits in a glazed pod on one side; the engine and the entire tail are on the other, joined by a stub of wing. It is as if someone took half of two different aeroplanes and bolted them...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Le 26 juin, un Boeing 787 d'EVA Air décollera de Taipei, mettra le cap à l'est et ne se posera qu'à l'aéroport international de Washington Dulles. L'opération semble banale. Il s'agit pourtant d'une première : aucun vol direct n'a jamais été assuré entre Taïwan et la capitale des États-Unis.
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
De mémoire d'homme, pour aller de Montréal à Dakar, il fallait d'abord prendre un vol dans la mauvaise direction. Cap au nord-est vers Paris ou Bruxelles, escale, puis retour vers le sud jusqu'au Sénégal – un voyage de douze heures ou plus pour atteindre une ville située presque plein est, de l'autre côté de la frontière….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Le matin du 2 juin, un avion à réaction vert pâle, recouvert d'une couche d'apprêt, décolla de Toulouse et s'éleva à plus de 12 500 mètres d'altitude au-dessus du sud de la France. Il ne transportait aucun passager, seulement des instruments de test et un équipage Airbus trié sur le volet. Il portait également un titre : celui de l'avion ayant la plus longue portée….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
It is just after two in the morning over the mid-Atlantic, and the cockpit of an Airbus A330 has gone quiet in the worst possible way. No engine hum. No thrust. Just the thin whistle of air over an airframe weighing more than 180 tonnes, sinking toward a black ocean...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On a September morning in 1962, the air traffic controllers at Van Nuys Airport made a phone call. They told the local police and fire departments to stand by. Out on the ramp sat the most absurd aeroplane anyone there had ever seen — a Boeing airliner whose...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At 11,000 feet over the wooded hills north of New York City, on a grey December afternoon, two airliners that were never supposed to meet found themselves on a converging path. Within seconds the tip of a Boeing 707’s left wing sliced through the triple tail of...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
At 7 a.m. on 15 June 2026, a Porter Airlines Embraer E195-E2 rolled toward the runway at a South Shore airfield that had not seen a scheduled airline departure in living memory. As flight PD181 lined up for Vancouver, the airport fire trucks arched a water-cannon...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
In a back garden in Darlington, a 40-kilo aircraft drops out of the County Durham sky, hovers about four metres up, releases a shoebox-sized parcel onto the lawn, and climbs away again. No van. No driver. No knock on the door. Just a tube of mascara, or a phone cable,...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
It flew. That is the strangest, most expensive part of the whole story. The Mitsubishi SpaceJet was not a paper aeroplane or a CGI fantasy that died on a designer’s screen. It rolled out, it taxied, it rotated off the runway at Nagoya, and it climbed into a...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Philippine Airlines has just made one of the world’s longest commercial hops a little fresher. As of 5 June 2026, the flag carrier is flying its brand-new Airbus A350-1000 nonstop between Manila and Toronto — a roughly 13,200 km marathon that now becomes...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Qatar Airways is heading back to the City of Brotherly Love. The Gulf carrier confirmed in June 2026 that it will relaunch daily nonstop service between its Doha hub and Philadelphia on 1 August 2026 — reclaiming a US East Coast gateway it abandoned in 2023, and...
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