7 January 2026
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair

    Cessna T206H Turbo Stationair (c/n T206-08172, OK-MCP), static display at the 30th edition of the Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show, Pardubice, May 2022. In 1957, the Cessna Aircraft Company introduced to the market its new light aircraft, designated the [...]
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    Saab signs GlobalEye AEW&C Contract with France

    On 30 December 2025, Saab announced that it had signed a contract with Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA — the French General Directorate of Armaments) for the purchase of two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft. The agreement [...]
  • AVIATION HISTORY

    2 January 1880 – Louis Breguet is born

    On 2 January 1880, Louis Charles Breguet, a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in Paris. Louis Breguet the grandson of Louis Clément François Breguet and the great-great-grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, two renowned French watchmakers. He grew up in [...]
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Sukhoi Su-47

    Sukhoi Su-47 „Berkut“ (technology demonstrator, NATO reporting name: Firkin), exhibited at the XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019, Zhukovsky, August 2019. In the early 1980s, the United States launched the Advanced Tactical Fighter programme, aimed at developing a next-generation [...]

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Nikolay Zhukovsky

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, sometimes transliterated as Joukovsky) was born on 17 January 1847 in the village of Orekhovo, near Vladimir, Russia. The future scientist, mathematician and engineer, was born into a family well-known of its long history of military service. His grandfather [...]
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