Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
By 1939 the biplane was supposed to be finished. Monoplane fighters — the Bf 109, the Spitfire, the Hurricane — were establishing what air combat in World War II would look like. And yet the Soviet Union was, that same year, accepting deliveries of a new biplane...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1960 the Convair B-58 Hustler was, by every measurable standard, the most advanced combat aircraft on Earth. It could sustain Mach 2 — a speed contemporary fighters could reach only in short dashes. It carried a thermonuclear weapon in a detachable streamlined pod...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It is the kind of idea that should never have left the napkin. Take a small tank, weighing roughly 5.5 tonnes. Bolt on a biplane-style wing and a twin-boom tail. Tow the assembly into the air behind a heavy bomber. Cast it off over enemy lines. Let the tank glide...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Florence Leontine Lowe a grandi dans une somptueuse propriété de Pasadena, employant jusqu'à 26 domestiques. Mariée à un pasteur à 18 ans, elle eut un fils, puis, en 1928, déguisée en homme, elle s'enfuit au Mexique à bord d'un bateau transportant des bananes, sous le nom de “ Pancho ”. Elle avait 26 ans et….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, À l'intérieur de MiGFlug
Avant les fusées. Avant que les voitures électriques ne se démocratisent. Avant Mars, avant les tunnels, avant les réseaux sociaux — il y avait un jeune entrepreneur sud-africain dans le désert du Nevada, sanglé dans le cockpit d'un avion de chasse de l'époque de la Guerre froide, souriant sous un...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the evening of 27 May 1919, a lumbering four-engine flying boat descended through the Atlantic haze and touched down on the Tagus Estuary outside Lisbon, Portugal. Its hull was salt-stained. Its crew of six had not slept properly in two days. And with that...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Elle atterrit dans un champ près de Londonderry, en Irlande du Nord, le 21 mai 1932. Le fermier, accourant à sa rencontre, lui demanda si elle venait de loin. “ D’Amérique ”, répondit-elle. Elle avait volé pendant 14 heures et 56 minutes à bord d’un….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The aircraft was 6.07 metres long. It carried a 1,200-kilogram warhead in its nose. The cockpit held only rudimentary instruments — an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, an attitude indicator — and the controls to fire three solid-fuel rocket motors. There was no...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Bessie Coleman walked into every flying school in Chicago and was turned away from every one. The year was 1919. No American flight school would accept a student who was both Black and a woman. Most would not accept her for either reason alone. A lesser person would...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 27 September 1956, Captain Mel Apt of the US Air Force became the first human being to fly faster than three times the speed of sound. He was at 65,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, in California, dropped from beneath a Boeing B-50 Superfortress mothership,...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The morning of 16 April 1912 was perfect — or so it seemed. Harriet Quimby stood at Folkestone, England, in her trademark plum-coloured flying suit, preparing to become the first woman to fly the English Channel. There was one problem. Fog had rolled in over the...
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