On 18 September 1913, the Avro 504 biplane bomber made its first flight. Alliott Verdon Roe, a British aircraft manufacturer and pioneering pilot, started his aviation career in the early 1900s with experiments on model […]
On 11 September 1911, Robert G. Fowler took off on the first coast-to-coast flight across the United States. Robert Grant “Bob” Fowler was born on 10 August 1884 in San Francisco, California. In the early […]
On 28 August 1910, Armand Dufaux, a Swiss aviation pioneer, flew a distance of about 66 km over Lake Geneva, setting the record for the longest flight over water to date. Armand Dufaux was born […]
In early August 2026, Red Bull Skydive Team member Marco Waltenspiel turned the sky above Cappadocia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with balloons, into a high-altitude slalom course. The project saw the Austrian skydiver complete […]
On 13 August 2026, Heart Aerospace – the Swedish-founded, Los Angeles-based manufacturer of hybrid-electric regional aircraft – announced the successful first flight of its X1 demonstrator aeroplane. With a wingspan of 32 metres (106 feet), […]
On 7 August 1913, Samuel Cody died in an aviation accident when his floatplane crashed near Farnborough, England. Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody and nicknamed the “Flying Cowboy”) was born on […]
On 31 July 1894, a biplane developed by Hiram Maxim performed an uncontrolled flight over a distance of approximately 600 ft. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was born on 5 February 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, in […]
On 17 July 1978, the Yugoslav SOKO G-4 Super Galeb jet trainer and light attack aircraft made its maiden flight. The G-4 Super Galeb (Super Seagull) was developed in the late 1970s in the former […]
On 10 July 1919, the British rigid airship R.34 set out on its return journey to England. Having flown for 75 hours, it reached RNAS Pulham station on 13 July. This made the R.34 the first […]
On 25 June 2026, Red Bull issued a press release announcing that a group of eight of the world’s best wingsuit pilots had completed the longest terrain formation flight ever, launching from above Mont Blanc. […]
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