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3 avril 1954 : mort accidentelle du #pilote d’essai Constantin #Rozanoff. Constantin Rozanoff, dit « Kostia » Rozanoff, né le 23 août 1905 à Varsovie (Empire russe) et mort le 3 avril 1954 à Melun-Villaroche en Seine-et-Marne, est un #aviateur français, colonel puis pilote d’essai. --- Pendant la Seconde #Guerre mondiale, Kostia Rozanoff commande en second le groupe de chasse II/4 et remporte deux victoires lors de la bataille de France. Après le débarquement américain en Afrique du Nord, il prend le commandement du Groupe de Chasse II/5 La Fayette, puis du GC II/3. Il est un des premiers français à piloter un avion à réaction. En 1945, devenu colonel, il commande la base aérienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan. Rozanoff quitte l’@Armee_de_lair en 1946 et devient directeur d’essais chez #Dassault. Il met au point les premiers chasseurs à réaction français, des séries Ouragan et Mystère. En février 1954, il est le premier pilote français à franchir le mur du son en vol horizontal sur le Mystère IV B 01. Il se tue quelques semaines après aux commandes du même appareil. --- theatrum-belli.com/chronicorum-be… --- @Dassault_OnAir

French Latécoère 521 six-engined double decker flying boat F-NORD "Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris" takes to the air in the 1930s

The legendary Concorde taking off from London Heathrow in 2003. 📹: osprey60

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Above is the original Caudron C.460, the one flown by Michel Détroyat, who won the Greve Trophy and the Thompson Trophy in the United States in 1936. Below is a replica of that same Caudron C.460. I don’t understand the decision to change the shape of the canopy...

The arrival of the Concorde in Saint Maarten in 1989.

Double Concorde dose to start the week (Feeling particularly energetic this morning, as I got a co-drive in an Audi TT RS, and despite nearly having a stroke, It was one of the coolest things I ever did with me pants on)

The first flight (without being released from the four-engine aircraft Languedoc) of the first Leduc 021. It was an experimental ramjet aircraft designed to achieve high speeds and climb rates. Two prototypes were built and underwent flight testing between 1953 and 1956. © ECPAD

The Airbus A350's beauty & elegance is absolutely timeless! 📹: mirabel_intl

The B-52 Stratofortress was built differently. While most aircraft must straighten before touchdown, the B-52 can land while still crabbing—thanks to landing gear that swivels up to 20°. 📹: theflyingduck77(YouTube)

AtlasAir ordered 20 (+20 options) #A350F, making Atlas the largest customer for the A350F.

Nostalgia. How things have changed. Not for the better.

The interesting looking French Couzinet 70 "Arc-en-Ciel" made the first direct Paris-Buenos Aires landplane crossing in Jan 1933. This tri-motor, flew 8 South Atlantic mail runs with Jean Mermoz at the controls. Only one built; modified to 71, destroyed in 1940. Success proved long-range mail viable, yet no series production followed due to funding woes.🫡

🇫🇷 Dassault Aviation a dévoilé le 10 mars 2026 à Bordeaux-Mérignac le Falcon 10X, son nouveau jet d'affaires flagship ultra-long-courrier, en partenariat avec Rolls-Royce (UK) pour les moteurs Pearl 10X. ✈️ Avec 13 890 km de rayon d'action (New York-Shanghai, Los Angeles-Sydney) et une vitesse max Mach 0.925, il concurrence directement les Gulfstream G700/G800 et Bombardier Global. 😍 Il offre la plus grande cabine du marché (2,77 m de large, 38 hublots extra-larges), la plus lumineuse et configurable (3-4 zones, suite privée, douche possible...). 🛡️ Doté du cockpit NeXus high-tech (FalconEye, commandes inspirées Rafale), il vise la certification fin 2027. dassault-aviation.com/en/group/press…

Space Shuttle riding on top of a modified Boeing 747 on its way to LAX in 2012, the final stop before retirement at the California Science Center.

#OTD @PG_Latecoere embarque pour Casablanca. Sur place, il marque les esprits avec un journal daté de la veille et des violettes fraîches de #Toulouse🪻. 11h de vol au lieu d’une dizaine de jours par bateau, rien n’arrête son projet « irréalisable » !  📷©Fondation Latécoère

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[#OnThisDay] ✈️ In 1969, the Concorde completed its first flight. It marked the birth of civil supersonic transport. Flying at twice the speed of sound felt almost like science fiction at the time. Do you think commercial supersonic travel will return? #Avgeek

In April 1985, high above the Irish Sea, photographer Adrian Meredith captured what has since become one of the most legendary images in aviation history. From the back seat of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado, Meredith photographed the *Concorde* at an altitude of around 50,000 feet, racing across the sky at Mach 2. The opportunity was fleeting—the Tornado, powerful as it was, could only stay alongside the supersonic airliner for a few minutes before falling behind. Within this narrow window of less than four minutes, Meredith managed to frame and capture an image that revealed Concorde in its full glory. The photograph itself is striking, not only because it shows the sleek, delta-winged jet in motion, but because it places it in a context rarely seen— the curvature of the Earth visible in the background, a view usually reserved for astronauts. The clarity of the shot conveys both the elegance of Concorde’s design and the immense challenge of supersonic flight. It was not merely a picture of a plane, but of a technological marvel at its absolute peak, suspended in an almost otherworldly setting where art and engineering seemed to merge seamlessly. Nearly two decades later, when Concorde was retired in 2003, the image took on even greater meaning. It now stands as a symbol of a bygone age, when commercial aviation dared to dream beyond the limits of speed and altitude. Meredith’s photograph preserves that dream, a frozen moment in time when the future seemed to arrive early, soaring faster than the speed of sound above the clouds. It remains both a celebration of human ingenuity and a nostalgic reminder of an era that has yet to return. © Aviation Historia #archaeohistories

L’avion de ligne supersonique franco-britannique était équipé de nombreux produits de nos sociétés historiques : ✅ Moteurs #Olympus 593 conçus par la #Snecma - société historique de Safran Aircraft Engines - et Rolls-Royce. ✅ Système de freinage à commande électrique produit par #Messier – aujourd’hui Safran Landing Systems. ✅ Atterrisseur principal et le régulateur de freinage développés par #Hispano-Suiza - société historique de Safran Transmission Systems.

Le 2 mars 1969, le #Concorde 001 effectuait son 1er vol d'essai ! Reconnaissable à son nez pointu et sa silhouette élancée, le Concorde a marqué l’histoire par sa vitesse : il était capable de voler à +2 fois la vitesse du son, permettant de traverser l’Atlantique en à peine 3h.