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13th December 2024

AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

Friday, the 13th

Today it´s Friday, the 13th – the date usually considered a bad luck day in the Western culture, following the old superstition born someday back in the Middle Ages. This unsubstantiated fear is so strong, that it even has its [...]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Tupolev Tu-154M

Tupolev Tu-154M (c/n 89A-815, RA-85849 of КОСМОС производственное объединение / KOSMOS Airlines), approaching runway of Václav Havel Airport Prague, January 2013. Tupolev Tu-154 – together with two other airliners, Ilyushin Il-62 and Tupolev Tu-134 – represents the second generation of [...]
MILITARY AVIATION

End of the era – the last operational flight of MiG-21 in Europe

On 30th November 2024, the Croatian Ministry of Defence officially announced the final operational flight of the MiG-21 fighter of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF). Therefore, the sixty-five years long [...]
AIR SHOW NEWS

Tag der Bundeswehr 2025 – the date and locations are already announced

On 2nd December 2024, the German Ministry of Defence officially disclosed the date and locations of the annual open-doors event of the German armed forces – Tag der Bundeswehr. In 2025, the event will be held on 28th June, at [...]
AVIATION HISTORY

6 December 1944 – first flight of Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger

On 6th December 1944, new German single-engine jet fighter, Heinkel He 162, performed its maiden flight. The aircraft was developed under Jägernotprogramm (English: Emergency Fighter Programme), issued by Reichsluftfahrtministerium (English: Ministry of Aviation) on 3rd June of 1944 and focused [...]

Austrian wingsuit pilot pushed boundaries of human flight by breaking three new world records

DREAMERS AND DOERS

6th November 2024

Peter Salzmann is the world-class wingsuit pilot, known for his daring flights and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in human flight. On 29th October 2024, he did it once again, by making [...]

The Flying Bulls Aerobatic Team made aviation history with a world-first stunt

CIVIL AVIATION

30th October 2024

On 8th October 2024, the Flying Bulls Aerobatic Team from the Czech Republic have made aviation history by executing the first in history formation inverted loop around a bridge. Their latest stunt is undoubtedly a [...]

AVIATION HISTORY