Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
L'après-midi du 24 mai 1988, un Boeing 737-300 quasi neuf se faufilait entre les cellules orageuses à l'approche de La Nouvelle-Orléans. Aux commandes, le commandant Carlos Dárdano, âgé de vingt-neuf ans, pilotait avec un œil, l'autre ayant été perdu par balle….
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Portugal has put its flag carrier back on the block, and on 29 July 2026 two of Europe’s three airline mega-groups laid their cards on the table. Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group both filed binding offers for a stake in TAP Air Portugal. The third giant, IAG —...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 30 July 2026, India’s government told Parliament something that, more than a year after the Air India 171 disaster, only makes the central mystery harder to solve: the Boeing 787’s fuel control switches — the very components at the heart of the...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
On 6 July 2026, British Airways flight BA919 from Düsseldorf was on its initial approach to London Heathrow’s Runway 27L when the aircraft, an Airbus A320-232 registered G-EUUN, lost a piece of information most passengers never think about: reliable airspeed. An...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine business jet...
Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles
They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their certification flight...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In 1911, flying across the United States was widely considered impossible. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst put money on it anyway, offering $50,000 to the first pilot to cross the country by air in 30 days or less. The men best equipped to try it looked...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In May 1930 a 26-year-old typist’s daughter from Hull climbed into a second-hand biplane she had named Jason, pointed it toward the far side of the planet, and set out to fly alone to Australia. Amy Johnson had held a pilot’s licence for less than a year...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In the spring of 1928 the Pacific Ocean was still, in aviation terms, a blank. No one had ever flown an aircraft across it. The distances were monstrous, the weather unknowable, and the navigation — over thousands of miles of empty water with no landmarks — bordered...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the evening of 4 October 1930, the largest flying object the world had ever built slipped its mooring mast at Cardington and turned south for India. The R101 was 777 feet long, more than seven storeys tall, and carried a government minister who had staked his...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Durant l'été 1927, un magnat hawaïen de l'ananas offrit une fortune aux premiers aviateurs capables de relier la Californie à Honolulu, soit 3 860 kilomètres au-dessus du Pacifique. Quinze équipages s'engagèrent, des dizaines de milliers de spectateurs vinrent assister à l'événement, et….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Le vol commercial le plus long jamais effectué n'a pas été réalisé par un avion à réaction moderne reliant Singapour à New York. Il s'agissait d'un hydravion de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un appareil imposant, qui filait à 200 km/h au-dessus d'un océan hostile pendant près de trente-trois heures d'affilée – une durée suffisante pour permettre à une poignée de….
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