On 16th August 1947, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver took-off for its maiden flight, flown by Russel Bannock – a former Canadian fighter ace and at that time chief test pilot of the DHC […]
Yesterday, on 14th August 2024, the Panavia Tornado multirole combat aircraft celebrated the 50th anniversary of its maiden flight. A brief history of development and operational service of that aircraft was already mentioned in a […]
Panavia Tornado is one of the most iconic aeroplanes of the Cold War era. This twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole jet aircraft was developed in the early 1970s by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, a tri-nation consortium consisting […]
Panavia PA-200 Tornado ECR (c/n 860, ´46+40´ of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), taking-off for the COMAO mission during the NATO Tiger Meet 2024, Fliegerhorst Schleswig/Jagel, June 2024. Exactly fifty years ago, on 14th […]
21st July 2024 marked the first ever deployment of the USAF strategic bombers to Romania. On that day, two B-52H Stratofortress aircraft assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, […]
On 9th August 1884, Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs performed the first fully controlled free flight with La France, a non-rigid airship they developed for the French Army. Charles Renard, born 1847 in Damblain, […]
On 1st May 2024, after an eight-year gap, the doors of Náměšt´military airfield again opened for general public, on the occasion of the Open Day event organised by 22. základna vrtulníkového letectva (22nd Helicopter Air […]
Letov LF-107 Luňák (c/n 34, OK-0820), flying display at 32nd edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2024. On 25th June 1948, prototype of the new Czechoslovak aerobatic glider LF-107 Luňák (English: kite) performed […]
Neil Armstrong, an American military pilot and cosmonaut, as well as the first man to step on the Moon, was born on 5th August 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1932, shortly after Armstrong’s second birthday, […]
During the recently concluded Farnborough International Airshow, Boeing and Ryanair signed a strategic, multi-year agreement covering the electronic flight bag (EFB) solution for the airline. Ryanair, the low-cost carrier based in Ireland, is the largest […]
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