Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On October 6, 1971, an aircraft appeared over the Sinai Peninsula that no Israeli fighter could catch. It flew at Mach 3.2 — faster than a rifle bullet — at an altitude above 24,000 metres. Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept. They fired missiles....
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quick FactsNationalitySpanish 🇪🇸Aerial Victories40 (highest ace, Spanish Civil War)Aircraft FlownFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CWarsSpanish Civil War (Nationalist)Born / Died25 Apr 1904 – 4 Apr 1939 (age 34)UnitGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — via Wikimedia Commons Most of the...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and cracked two ribs...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered production in 1959,...
Histoire et légendes, Nouvelles
There is only one left that can fly. Out of the hundreds of PB4Y-2 Privateers that the US Navy operated across the Pacific during the final years of World War II, a single airworthy example survives — based in Casa Grande, Arizona, maintained by a small crew of...
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On June 15, 1919, at 8:40 in the morning, a Vickers Vimy biplane with two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines and no radio contact with the outside world nosed down through the clouds over the west coast of Ireland — and drove itself straight into a bog at Derrygimlagh, near...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Quick FactsNationalityAustro-Hungarian 🇦🇹Aerial Victories32 (highest k.u.k. Luftfahrtruppen ace)Aircraft FlownAlbatros D.III, Hansa-BrandenburgWarsWorld War IBorn / Died5 Feb 1895 – 1 Aug 1981 (age 86)UnitFlik 6, Flik 55J Julius Arigi — via Wikimedia Commons Every war...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On October 3, 1967, test pilot William J. “Pete” Knight climbed into a black, dart-shaped aircraft bolted to the wing of a B-52 bomber. At 45,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, the B-52 released him. Knight lit the rocket engine. In the next 84 seconds, he accelerated...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In August 1914, when the first European armies crossed their borders and the Great War began, military aircraft were used for one purpose: watching. Unarmed reconnaissance planes flew over enemy lines, their observers sketching troop positions and supply routes. The...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On the morning of April 18, 1942 — four months and eleven days after Pearl Harbor — sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launched from the pitching deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. They were headed for Tokyo. None of them had enough fuel to return. There was...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Two small, strange-looking aircraft were built in total secrecy at Lockheed’s Skunk Works facility in Burbank, California, between 1976 and 1977. They were angular, faceted, and looked like something a geometry student had folded out of sheet metal. They were...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
In 1920, Bessie Coleman walked into every flight school in the United States that she could find. Every single one turned her away. She was Black. She was a woman. In Jim Crow America, that was two disqualifications, and neither was negotiable. So she learned French....
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