On 15th September 1916, two Austro-Hungarian seaplanes sank the French submarine Foucault near the Bay of Kotor. It was the first time in history when a submarine was sunk by an aeroplane. The Foucault (Q70) […]
On 8th September 2016, the well-known Austrian pilot Hannes Arch died in a helicopter crash in Hohe Tauern mountains. Hannes Arch was born on 22 September 1967 in Leoben, a Styrian city in central Austria. […]
On 25th August 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully completed the 3,986-kilometre (2,477-mile) flight from Los Angeles to Newark, therefore becoming the first aviatrix to cross the US in a heavier-than-air aircraft. Amelia Earhart not only was […]
On 18th August 1805, Sophie Blanchard successfully completed her solo balloon flight, therefore becoming the first woman in aviation history to perform a solo flight in an aircraft. Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard (née Armandt) was […]
On 28th July 1858, French photographer and journalist, known as Nadar, took the first airborne photograph from his balloon. Nadar was born in 1820 and his official name was Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. Initially, he started studying […]
On 7th July 1919, Oskar Bider, the famous Swiss aviation pioneer, died crashing his Nieuport 21 during an aerobatic performance in Dübendorf. Oskar Bider was born in 1891, in Langenbruck, Basel-Land. From his early years, […]
On 30th June 1956, a United Airlines DC-7 and a Trans World Airlines L-1049 Super Constellation collided in the air over Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. All 128 people on board of both airliners […]
On 23rd June 1913, Igor Sikorsky performed the first flight of his heavy aircraft, after re-designing it into four-in-line engine configuration. In 1911, the young aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, began his […]
On 16th June 1963, Vostok 6 spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome, with just one cosmonaut on board – Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born in 1937, […]
On 9th June 1928, a Fokker F.VII/3 named ´Southern Cross´ flown by Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, successfully landed in Brisbane, Australia, therefore completing the 11,566-kilometre-long journey from Oakland, California. Sir Charles Edward Kingsford […]
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