Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
At three o’clock on a September morning in 1956, the residents of St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights were asleep — blissfully unaware that a single-engine Cessna was descending toward their street from the darkness above the Hudson River. The pilot had no...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the evening of 26 May 1941, fifteen fabric-covered biplanes lumbered off the pitching deck of HMS Ark Royal into a North Atlantic gale. Their target was the most powerful warship in the world: the German battleship Bismarck, a 50,000-ton behemoth that had just...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Picture, if you will, a jet fighter the size of a compact car. A fighter with no landing gear — because it was never supposed to land. A fighter designed to be stored in a bomb bay, dropped into combat, and then retrieved by flying back up to a moving bomber and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
James Harold Doolittle a effectué deux vols qui ont changé le monde, et ils ne pouvaient guère être plus différents. Le premier eut lieu le 24 septembre 1929, à Mitchel Field, à Long Island, lorsqu'il monta à bord d'un biplan Consolidated NY-2 dont le cockpit était recouvert d'une capote en tissu….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the morning of January 2, 1967, a formation of aircraft appeared on North Vietnamese radar screens approaching Hanoi from the west. To the radar operators at Phuc Yen and Gia Lam airfields, the electronic signatures looked familiar: F-105 Thunderchiefs, the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of February 20, 1959, workers arrived at Avro Canada’s sprawling plant in Malton, Ontario, and were handed slips of paper that said one thing: you are dismissed. By lunchtime, 14,000 people were out of work. By the following weeks, engineers who...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le 11 juillet 1949, un hydravion transportant Jacqueline Auriol, belle-fille du président français, s'écrase sur la Seine près de Paris. Elle est extraite des débris, le visage grièvement défiguré. Les chirurgiens reconstruisent son visage grâce à plus de vingt opérations réparties sur plusieurs jours.
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
At Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had spent years in the Arizona boneyard rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: “Apocalypse II.” Serial...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On a grey Welsh morning in early May, hikers lining the ridges above Cadair Idris heard the unmistakable rumble of twin Pratt & Whitney F100 engines reverberating off granite walls. Then it appeared: an F-15E Strike Eagle wearing a paint scheme that had not graced...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
In early May 2026, a deplaning incident at Newark Liberty International Airport became the latest flashpoint in America’s turbulent relationship with air travel etiquette — but with a twist no one expected. The woman at the center of the controversy filmed and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On paper, the C-5 Galaxy is the most capable military transport aircraft ever built by the Western world. In practice, on any given day in 2025, 63 percent of the fleet is broken. That number — 37 percent mission capable — is not a rounding error or a statistical...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Jacqueline Cochran a grandi orpheline dans la Floride rurale, travaillant dans les champs de coton et dormant à même le sol d'une cabane. À 40 ans, elle détenait plus de records de vitesse, de distance et d'altitude que n'importe quel autre pilote vivant, homme ou femme. La distance entre ces deux faits était….
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