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...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
You know what a B-17 looks like. Four radial engines. The towering tail fin. Glass nose. Heavy-bomber Americana, stamped onto a thousand black-and-white photographs of the daylight raids over Germany. Now picture one with a fifth engine bolted to its nose — a giant...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Three were built. Three flew. One crashed. Two went into storage. None ever entered service. The Lockheed YF-12 is one of those aircraft that should have rewritten the book on continental air defence and instead became a footnote — overshadowed by the SR-71 Blackbird...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 10 January 1964, a B-52H Stratofortress flown by a Boeing test crew on a structural test flight near East Spanish Peak in southern Colorado when it flew into the worst clear-air turbulence anyone aboard had ever experienced. There was no warning, no cloud cover, no...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On 1 November 1950, UN pilots over North Korea encountered something they had not expected: a swept-wing jet fighter faster, more agile, and better armed than anything in their inventory. The MiG-15 appeared above the Yalu River — the border between North Korea and...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
It was the fastest fighter at low level in the Royal Air Force inventory, faster than the Spitfire below 15,000 feet. It carried four 20mm cannons in its nose — twice the firepower of any other British fighter. It first flew in October 1938 and entered service in...
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