The German flying bomb, initially known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance Weapon No. 1), was developed in the early 1942 by Fritz Gosslau and Robert Lusser, who at […]
Between 3rd and 5th March 1942, the naval aviation of the Japanese Imperial Navy performed the long-range bomb raid on Oahu Island, commonly known as the second attack on Pearl Harbor. Officially codenamed Kē-Sakusen (K作戦 […]
On 23rd May 1923, Societé anonyme belge d’Exploitation de la Navigation aérienne (Belgian Corporation for the Exploitation of Aerial Navigation) aviation carrier was established. The company, commonly known as SABENA (or Sabena), was the Belgian […]
The An-26 is one of the most recognisable aircraft designed by the Antonov design bureau and remains one of the best-known Soviet-era transport aeroplanes. Although smaller than aircraft such as the An-124 or An-225, the […]
Centrum Leteckého Výcviku (Flight Training Centre – CLV) in Pardubice is among the regular participants of Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show, and the forthcoming 33rd edition of the event will not be an exception […]
This month, personnel of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade and the helicopter squadron of the 98th Air Brigade of the Serbian Armed Forces performed a joint training in rappel insertion techniques. The exercise was performed […]
On 16th May 1919, three Curtiss NC-4 flying boats of the US Navy left Newfoundland and headed the Azores, in attempt for the first transatlantic flight of the powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. In April of 1913, […]
Rigid and semi-rigid airships first appeared in the late nineteenth century and were consistently developed in the following decades. Pioneers such as Alberto Santos-Dumont, Count von Zeppelin and Thomas Scott Baldwin transformed the dirigible from […]
Embraer ERJ 135ER (c/n 145376, G-RJXL of BMI Regional), taxiing at Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2018. Development of the Embraer ERJ (Embraer Regional Jet) aircraft family began in the late 1980s, with the […]
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