17+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1518+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 13, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire | 0 comments A Lockheed Chasseur stellaire F-104 came down final approach at 175 knots with full flaps, and that was the basic number. The pilot then added five knots for every 1,000 pounds of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (677+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Sep 3, 2026 | Aviation World, History & Legends | 0 comments Somebody in the Soviet Ministry of Aircraft Industry decided that what agriculture needed was a jet. Not a jet trainer, not a jet transport. A jet crop-duster. A biplane one. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (533+ words) by Max Grünwald | Sep 2, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Take an F-16 Fighting Falcon, throw away its wing, and bolt on a vast cranked-arrow delta that nearly doubles its area. Stretch the fuselage, cram in 65 percent more fuel, and hang…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (749+ words) par Connor Kerr | 27 août 2026 | Aviation militaire, Nouvelles | 0 commentaire On Tuesday afternoon in Dhaka, a government adviser stood up at the Secretariat and confirmed that a committee had finished drafting the agreement. Bangladesh intends to buy the Chengdu J-10. Twenty aircraft....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1038+ words) Italy’s first genuinely modern bomber – an all-metal monoplane that looked the part in 1936, then aged into one of the Regia Aeronautica’s most exposed medium bombers by 1940. Cantilever monoplane wing, semi-monocoque all-metal fuselage, retractable main gear and powered turrets – a clean,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) di Fortuna Leroy | 12 agosto 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Before the UH-60 wore the name, there was another Blackhawk, and it was a snarling gunship. The Sikorsky S-67 first flew on 20 August 1970, a sleek, low-slung attack helicopter built entirely on Sikorsky's own money…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (884+ words) par Connor Kerr | 28 août 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes | 0 commentaire On 9 April 1960, over a 5,000 km closed circuit, a Soviet airliner averaged 877.21 km/h. That is 545 mph. It was carrying up to 25 tonnes of payload, it had four engines turning…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (406+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 30, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Catapulting a jet that weighs as much as fifteen wartime Corsairs off a pitching carrier deck sounds like madness. For 35 years the US Navy did it routinely — with the Douglas A…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (620+ words) par Joseph Duncan | 16 août 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Nouvelles | 0 commentaire The R66 will replace the twin-engine Airbus UH-72 Lakota that has trained Army aviators at Fort Rucker since 2015. And here is the twist that has aviation people talking: a decade ago the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (579+ words) di Connor Kerr | 1 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Grumman built the F8F Bearcat around one brutal idea: take the biggest engine America had and wrap the smallest possible aeroplane around it. The result was less a fighter than an…...