Wolfsberg Aircraft Sparrow ML (c/n 011, OK-YUL 36) waiting for permission to take-off from Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. The beginnings of Wolfsberg Aircraft aviation manufacturer date back to 1995, when the company was […]
On 7th September 1920, on their way from Italy to Finland, two crews of the Finnish Air Force made an attempt to fly across the Alps in Savoia S.9 flying boats. Regrettably, they never reached […]
On 10th January 1935, the French six engine, double deck long-range flying boat Latécoère 521, performed its first flight. The Latécoère 521 was one of many seaplanes designed and built by Pierre-Georges Latécoère, the French […]
On 3rd January 2025, the President of Chile Gabriel Boric, landed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, therefore beginning the first official visit of Latin American president at the South Pole. The presidential flight was […]
PZL M18A Dromader (c/n 1Z021-13, OK-TGH), part of the Agroair company fleet, Chrudim airfield, December 2024. Do dromedary camels hibernate in winter? Definitely yes, when it comes to those made of metal and able to […]
We are, obviously, referring to the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which, on 18th January 2024, made its final, 72nd flight over the surface of the Red Planet. The flight which marked the end of its Martian […]
On 3rd January 1922, Aero A-10, the first commercial aircraft designed and built in Czechoslovakia, successfully completed its first flight. The aeroplane was developed by a construction team led by Rudolf Blasser and made for […]
The Lavochkin construction bureau, also known as OKB-301, is best-known for its propeller-driven fighters, such as the LaGG-1, the LaGG-3, the La-5 and its derivatives, widely used during the Second World War, as well as […]
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