12 February 2026
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    RNoAF expands its SAR capability with new Tromsø AW101 base

    At the end of January 2026, the Norwegian government officially announced its decision to exercise the option for two additional AgustaWestland AW101 SAR Queen helicopters. This decision will allow a permanent rescue helicopter base to be established in Tromsø in [...]
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Aerotechnik WGM.21

    The Aerotechnik WGM.21 prototype, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. In the 1960s, the German company Aerotechnik Entwicklung und Apparatebau GmbH (Aerotechnik Development and Equipment Manufacturing Ltd.), based in Frankfurt am Main, began the development of a [...]
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    MH-139A Grey Wolf programme grows with new USAF order

    At the end of January 2026, Boeing announced that it would produce four additional MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters for the United States Air Force (USAF). The latest order, concluded between the company and the US military, will bring the total [...]
  • AVIATION HISTORY

    6 February 1916 – airstrike on Zonguldak

    On 6 February 1916, the Russian naval aviation carried out an airstrike on the Turkish port of Zonguldak and sank the German cargo vessel SS Irmingard, the largest ship to be sunk by an air attack during the First World [...]

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Traian Vuia

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

Traian Vuia was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer. In 1903, he developed the “aeroplane-car”, a flying machine concept that he presented to the French Academy of Sciences. Vuia was born on 17 August 1872 in Surducu Mic, a village in the Bujor commune of [...]
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