On 16 October 1937, the Fokker T.V, a Dutch twin-engine bomber-hunter, made its maiden flight from Schiphol airfield. In 1921, Giulio Douhet, an Italian general and air power theorist, published his principal work, Il dominio […]
On 9 October 1890, French aviation pioneer Clément Ader made the first manned flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in history. Although the flight was uncontrolled and only reached a height of around 20 centimetres, […]
On 2 October 1918, the experimental unmanned aircraft, officially designated the Kettering Aerial Torpedo (aka the Kettering Bug), performed its maiden flight. Development of this aircraft, at that time known as an aerial torpedo and […]
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 […]
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