Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Dans les années 1960, des satellites espions américains scrutant la mer Caspienne ont rapporté des images d'un engin qui n'aurait jamais dû exister : un hybride de navire et d'avion de 92 mètres de long, propulsé par des réacteurs, rasant la surface de l'eau à 500 km/h. La CIA l'a surnommé le Monstre de la mer Caspienne. Les Soviétiques….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Le Bell AH-1 Cobra est l'hélicoptère le plus marquant de l'histoire militaire américaine. Avant le Cobra, tous les hélicoptères armés du monde étaient des cellules de transport auxquelles on avait ajouté des armes : un Huey avec des mitrailleuses de porte, un Mi-4 avec des lance-roquettes, un Wessex avec….
Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire
Lorsqu'une collision entre deux aéronefs se produit en plein vol — comme ce fut récemment le cas avec un EA-18G Growler sur la base aérienne de Mountain Home — le champ de débris peut s'étendre sur des kilomètres. Des morceaux d'aluminium, des câbles et des composants avioniques sont éparpillés sur le terrain selon des schémas qui semblent aléatoires pour un œil non averti.
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely surprising. From...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive might-have-beens, and its...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight. There were two of...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
On May 19, 2026, the United States Air Force ordered an operational pause for its entire fleet of T-38 Talon jet trainers. Every T-38 across every command—Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Force Global...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is an aircraft that first flew when Harry Truman was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Bill Allen, Boeing’s president, was watching the hydroplane races on Lake Washington from a company yacht on 7 August 1955. The new Boeing 367-80 — the prototype of what would become the 707 — was scheduled to fly overhead in a demonstration for potential airline...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
On August 3, 1945, a Japanese test pilot named Masayoshi Tsuruno climbed into the strangest fighter prototype Japan had ever built and pushed the throttle forward. The aircraft trundled along the runway at Kyūshū Aircraft Company’s Mushiroda Airfield, lifted its...
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