Mot-clé Aviation

À la fin des années 1920, Howard Hughes, jeune héritier d'une famille du Sud possédant de nombreux puits de pétrole, investit une somme considérable dans la production de "Hell's Angels", un film retraçant les exploits d'aviateurs pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Au cours d'un tournage qui va s'étaler sur trois ans, le producteur-réalisateur rencontre deux de ses fidèles collaborateurs: Noah Dietrich, chargé de s'occuper des finances de l'entreprise, et le professeur Fitz, qui devient son conseiller scientifique. Ce tournage avive également l'intérêt de Howard pour l'aéronautique, l'amenant à concevoir et à tester de nouveaux modèles d'avions rapides. Peu de temps après la sortie en fanfare de "Hell's Angels", Howard fait la connaissance de la comédienne Katharine Hepburn, dont il tombe amoureux.

Le 15 janvier 2009, après son décollage de l'aéroport La Guardia de New York, le vol 1549 de l'US Airways subit la perte des deux réacteurs et n'a plus aucune poussée motrice. L'avion réussit à se poser sans encombre sur les eaux glacées du fleuve Hudson. Les 155 passagers et membres d'équipage ont la vie sauve. Un exploit hors du commun accompli par le commandant Chesley « Sully » Sullenberger et Jeff Skiles, son second, relayé par les médias et l'opinion publique. Dans le pays, la presse s'empare du « miracle sur l'Hudson ». Et pourtant, alors même que le pilote est salué comme un héros, la NTBS ouvre enquête une menace et cherche l'erreur humaine, une orientation qui menace les réputations et carrières des deux pilotes…

Une attaque terroriste menée en plein vol. Des passagers touchés l’un après l’autre. Un flic chargé de l’enquête, dont l’épouse est dans l’avion. Une compagnie aérienne dépassée. Une seule consigne adressée aux pilotes : Défense d’atterrir.

Un éditeur à succès rencontre un jeune consultant en informatique qui menace sa famille, son travail et sa vie.

Basé sur le manga Blue Thermal de Kana Ozawa. L'histoire se centre sur Tamaki Tsuru, une personne qui a fait partie de nombreuses équipes sportives pendant toute sa scolarité. A cause de sa passion pour le sport qui faisait fuir les éventuels prétendants, Tamaki n'a jamais pu avoir une vie romantique. Maintenant qu'elle s'apprête à débuter ses études universitaires, cette dernière ne cherche qu'une chose : trouver l'amour ! Cependant, une succession d'événements va la forcer à rejoindre le club aéronautique de son université.

À la mort de sa mère, Amy, âgée de treize ans, part vivre chez son père, dans une ferme du Canada. Elle sauve de la destruction des œufs d'oie sauvage. Les oisillons, lorsqu'ils naissent, la prennent pour leur mère et ne suivent qu'elle. Au point que, pour leur apprendre à voler, Amy se met a l'ULM, avec l'aide de son père qui met au point la machine. Au moment de la migration hivernale, Amy doit guider la troupe de ses amies vers le Sud.

Rod Slater vient d'être nommé manager général d'une mine d'or à Sondertich, en Afrique du Sud. Très vite, il tombe amoureux de la petite-fille de son patron. Mais il va être impliqué malgré lui dans une terrible conspiration qu'il va devoir mettre à jour ...

Un regard sur la vie de la légendaire pilote américaine Amelia Earhart, qui a disparu alors qu'elle survolait l'océan Pacifique en 1937 pour tenter de faire le tour du monde. Une pionnière de l’aviation et une femme d’exception. Première femme à traverser l’Atlantique en avion, elle fut l’une des personnalités les plus célèbres et les plus admirées de son temps.

L'histoire nous entraîne au cœur des aventures de l'escadron Kotobuki, composé des meilleures pilotes. Il s'agit d'un film compilant la série animée en rajoutant des scènes supplémentaires.

Afin d’éviter l’épaisse masse de brouillard qui recouvre Los Angeles, le Boeing 747 de la Columbia Airlines s’apprête à atterrir à Salt Lake City. Alors que le commandant Stacy entame sa descente vers l’aéroport, le pilote d’un petit avion de tourisme est victime d’une crise cardiaque et se crashe dans le cockpit du 747. Plusieurs membres de l’équipage du Boeing sont tués sur le coup. Le pilote est grièvement blessé, incapable de tenir les commandes. Avec l’aide des aiguilleurs du ciel, la chef de cabine Nancy va tenter de maintenir l’avion en vol…

Lorsque son mari, brillant pilote d'avions de chasse perd la vie, une femme cherche à découvrir la vérité malgré les mensonges de l'armée américaine.

En 1943, Hannibal Lee se rend à la base de Tuskegee en Alabama et se retrouve dans un escadron composé exclusivement de pilotes noirs. Très vite, les aspirants pilotes subissent le racisme de leur supérieurs en même temps qu'un entraînement extrêmement dangereux. Les tragédies se multiplient cependant au cours de leur formation.

Un grand journal britannique organise une course aérienne entre Londres et Paris. Dix mille livres Sterling de récompense pour l'heureux gagnant !

Le difficile parcours de Jake Grafton, pilote de l'aéronavale américaine pendant la guerre du Vietnam. Alors que son co-pilote est tué, il remet en question les frappes aériennes de l'armée américaine, et en particulier les ordres donnés par son supérieur cynique Virgil Cole...

In the near future, human inhabitants would have been crowded and congested. It was an urgency to stride out to the universe and find a new home. When everything was under progress in an orderly way, dramatic geological transformations erupted over the courses of decades. Humanity was demolished by this disaster and hardly left anything. Until the nature gradually restored calm, people struggled to their feet from ruins and abysses, stepping again onto this familiar but strange earth. But for us people, dominating everything has been rooted into our blood. Are we still masters of this new world?

When the Pillars suddenly appear on Earth, threatening all life, it's only the act of the god Odin that offers humanity salvation. Providing a means of fighting back, he gives Earth the Valkyries, young female pilots with supernatural powers and spirit fighter planes. These skilled troublemakers, all young, risk their lives in a long-running war—but the final battle is fast approaching!

Allison and Will set out on a mission to discover the fabled "peace treasure" in a continent wrought with long-standing conflict between two kingdoms. Their belief and aspirations are carried on by their daughter, Lillia, who strives to bring the warring nations together as a united land. This animated show motivates young viewers to dream of a world that is rid of hostility and disputes brought on by differences in nationality or ideology.

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Gu Nanting, the vice minister of passenger flight department of Lu Airlines, is a strict and self-disciplined man, who is known as a mean boss and a devil instructor. The female cargo pilot, Cheng Xiao, is brave and unrestrained. She was about to be promoted to captain when she got transferred to the passenger department due to the company's restructuring. Gu Nanting becomes Cheng Xiao's direct supervisor and mentor, and the two are at odds with each other. Gu Nanting, who has always pursued stability and order, is disrupted time and again by Cheng Xiao, who does not follow the usual rules. The two pilots and their mentor, who have always pursued stability and order, are disrupted time and again by the unorthodox Cheng Xiao. How can they deal with this situation?

It is about young people who dream of taking flight in the blue skies and the tests that they encounter when in comes to friendship, romance and career. Xiao Mo is a talented pilot who experiences a blow to his career when a person dies on his watch because of an accident. The person is the mother of Xia Yu who is the successor of an aviation empire. Even though subsequent investigations cleared Xiao Mo of any fault, he resigns from his job due to guilt and chooses to become a mechanic instead. Two years later, Xiao Mo returns to flying and also encounters Xia Yu who's studying to become a pilot as well. The two men find themselves falling for the same woman. To complicate matters, details from two years ago resurface causing the people to suspect Xiao Mo once agai

In order to uncover the "end of the sky," as spoken of in ancient mythology, Kal-el Albus is sent to Isla, an island in the sky. There he attends Cadoques High's Aerial Division, where he enjoys a carefree life with his schoolmates. That is...until a surprise attack by the air tribe drags Isla into a bloody war.

Inoue Momoko admires her late father, who was a pilot. She begins work as a co-pilot at a low-cost airline. Under Captain Shinkai Kohei’s instructions, who knew her father, Inoue Momoko works hard to become a captain and her boyfriend Umino Daisuke supports her dream too. One day, Inoue Momoko has a problem with a passenger complaining about the limit for carry-on baggage. At that time, Katsuki Tetsuya looks at the situation.

The story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an advanced jet fighter-interceptor designed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Though the jet was an engineering marvel, cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure from the military industrial complex, and the election of the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker government, stopped the jet just as it was getting off the ground.

NASA Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong adds to his long list of space flight & aviation accomplishments as he takes the controls of a variety of flying machines. Each episode blends historic footage, interviews, and flying. Armstrong takes you on an exhilarating adventure through time.

Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet is a United Kingdom-produced computer-generated imagery action-adventure TV series which debuted in February 2005 as part of the Ministry of Mayhem on ITV. Created by Gerry Anderson, it is a Hypermarionation reboot of the classic 1967 Supermarionation series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.

Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II. Conflict arose when American soldiers must share their barracks. Samuel West starred as the RAF pilot Archie Bunting. Martin Clunes starred as Group Captain Barker; a man with an inability to say the word "Luftwaffe".

It follows the story of Pin Xiang, a high school senior with a hidden talent who discovers a passion for soccer and strives to become an amazing soccer player.

The Aviators is an award-winning weekly documentary-lifestyle-science TV series featuring interesting people, the latest aircraft, current technology and fly-in destinations. The show's site describes subject matter as follows: "We will take you behind the scenes to show you how airline pilots train, how planes are built, and how ATC works. We will profile aviation businesses and showcase aviation products. We will provide safety tips for private and recreational pilots and career tips for professional pilots."

The warplane has evolved over nearly a century to become what it is today, in 2004. This series is the story of how, through life-and-death necessity, invention, ingenuity and sheer hard work that warplane technology evolved. The Warplane series is not a history of every military plane but rather a look at the major stepping stones that advanced military aviation.

Historian Dan Snow relives the story of a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany in World War Two using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.

AFP: American Fighter Pilot is a reality series broadcast briefly on CBS in 2002. It followed three Air Force officers as they trained to become pilots of F-15 fighter jets at Tyndall Air Force Base outside of Panama City, Florida. The series included footage of their experiences in the air, as well as interactions with their families and instructors. Directors Tony Scott and Ridley Scott were co-executive producers. Unsuccessful in the ratings, the series was cancelled after two episodes.

In 1903, not only did the Wright brothers ’plane soar, but a young man named William Boeing stepped out of the Yale University gates. 13 years later, using wood, canvas and wire, the first "Boeing model", the B&W, was born. Boeing has since grown into a huge company and developed countless models, including the 1957-92 passenger jet, the 707. Later, we learn about the Constellation designed by Lockheed in the early 1940s. The fuselage of the machine evokes the graceful form of a dolphin, no wonder that with its beauty it also won the title of "Queen of Heaven". The C-69 was the first model to cross non-stop America, covering the Los Angeles-Washington DC distance in record time of 7 hours and 3 minutes. Connies were used for both military and civilian purposes until the early 1960s. This and many more stories are recounted here in Great Planes.

The Boeing Company develops their most technically advanced aircraft: the 777. From corporate conference rooms to factory floors, its extensive testing and first commercial flight, more than 10,000 people were involved in the creation of the new plane, assembled with parts from all over the world.