On 18th April 1952, prototype of Convair YB-60 long-range heavy bomber, successfully performed its maiden flight. The story of YB-60 starts already in the early 1940s, when the US military authorities issued the first requirement […]
“Our country should manufacture its own weapons as much as possible. We have good shipyards and armouries, but no domestic production of warplanes”, it was these words, spoken by Per Albin Hansson in 1936, that […]
Jet Pitts (c/n LAA 009C-15409, G-JPIT), flying display at the 44th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2024. The story of jet-powered Pitts biplane starts with Richard Goodwin, one of the best known and recognized British […]
Douglas C-47 Skytrain, the legendary transport aircraft from the World War II, is one of the recently announced highlights of the upcoming, 33rd edition of Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show. This iconic aeroplane will […]
On 11th April 1952, prototype of YH-21 rotorcraft, successfully performed its first flight. The helicopter was designed by Frank N. Piasecki, the American aviation engineer and rotorcraft pioneer, and was developed in response to the […]
On 22 April 1991, the Lockheed YF-22, developed by Lockheed in cooperation with Pratt & Whitney, was announced the winner of the United States Air Force competition for a new air-dominance fighter. The origins of […]
Mil Mi-24V (c/n 087358 and c/n 087354, ´7358´ and ´7354´ of the Czech Air Force), flying display at the Czech International Air Fest 2010, Hradec Králové, September 2010. In August of 1978, the first Mi-24D […]
In less than a month, Den ve vzduchu (English: Day in the air) will open this year´s air show season in Europe. Traditionally organised during the last weekend of April, Den ve vzduchu is one […]
On 4th April 1984, the well-known Soviet aircraft designer, Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Олег Константинович Антонов) died in Kiev (in now Ukraine), at the age of 78. Antonov, born in 1906 in Troitsa village, the Moscow […]
The story of this unusual aircraft begins in Italy in the mid-1940s, when engineer Luigi Pellarini collaborated with the Milan-based company Carrozzeria Colli. Together, they developed a series of “flying car” prototypes (PL-1 to PL-5), […]
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