24 April 2025
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    FARP at the Marine training course

    In the middle of April 2025, the US Marine Corps helicopter crews took part in the Forward Arming and Refuelling Point (FARP) training, within the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 2-25 organised by the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics [...]
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Dassault Mirage IIIDS

    Dassault Mirage IIIDS (c/n MD 470, HB-RDF, formerly ´J-2012´ of the Swiss Air Force), static display at the 75th Anniversary of Meiringen airfield, Meiringen, June 2016. In the early 1950s, the French Ministry of Defence issued specification for a new, [...]
  • AVIATION HISTORY

    18 April 1952 – first flight of Convair YB-60

    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 for a long-range strategic bomber, [...]
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    Salaknib 2025 – developing MEDEVAC skills on the Philippines

    Between 24th March and 11th April, at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Philippines, the Philippine Army (PA) and the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) conducted a joint training called ‘Salaknib’. It was part of ‘Salaknib and Balikatan’ (SABAK) 2025 exercise, aimed [...]

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The first aviation races

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

At the dawn of aviation, many popular newspapers and magazines used to sponsor prizes for those who dared to push the limits forward. It was [...]

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