Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
Ask anyone which airliner first broke the sound barrier and they will say Concorde. They will be wrong by seven years — and by one very ordinary-looking Douglas jetliner that most people have completely forgotten. On 21 August 1961, a standard Douglas DC-8 — the same...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
À l'automne 1980, des ingénieurs américains ont fixé trente roquettes sur un C-130 Hercules. Le plan était à la fois insensé et d'un sérieux implacable : faire atterrir le quadrimoteur dans un stade de football au cœur de Téhéran, l'immobiliser à l'intérieur du terrain, y embarquer cinquante-deux soldats américains….
Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes
On the afternoon of 24 November 1971, a quiet man in a business suit walked up to the Northwest Orient counter in Portland, Oregon, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle. He gave his name as Dan Cooper. A few hours later he would step out of the back of a...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
The most important document in the history of stealth aircraft was not written in California or at a secret desert airfield. It was written in Moscow, in Russian, by a Soviet physicist — and the Soviet Union let it go abroad because it decided the work was of no...
Aviation militaire, Nouvelles
Pendant des mois, le programme d'avions de combat le plus ambitieux d'Europe a souffert d'un manque criant : le financement. Le 3 juillet 2026, ce manque a été comblé. Le Royaume-Uni, l'Italie et le Japon ont signé un contrat de 4,6 milliards de livres sterling ($6,1 milliards) pour accélérer le développement de leur avion de combat de sixième génération….
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
Saturday morning, 28 July 1945. New York is wrapped in fog so thick that the top third of the Empire State Building has simply vanished. At 9:40 a.m., office workers on the 79th floor hear a sound no office worker should ever hear: aircraft engines, close, and getting...
Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire
For three decades during the Cold War, Britain’s nuclear deterrent rested on the wings of three extraordinary aircraft: the Vickers Valiant, the Avro Vulcan, and the Handley Page Victor. Known collectively as the V-bombers, they were designed to carry atomic and...
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