On 8th June 2024, the 10th edition of the German armed forces open doors day – Tag der Bundeswehr – took place. The event was held on nine locations throughout the country and attracted over […]
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 […]
Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]
On 7th February 1906, Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov (Олег Константинович Антонов), the world-known aviation engineer, aviation designer and the founder of the Antonov construction bureau (OKB-153), was born in Troitsa village, in the Moscow region of […]
Between 13th and 20th January 2025, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) intensively tested capabilities of the Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter by operating […]
Fairchild Model 24 W46 (c/n W-46-251, formerly N8155) exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. The economic downturn of the early 1930s, caused by the Great Depression, forced the Fairchild Aviation Corporation […]
Hugo Junkers, a renowned German aviation engineer and aircraft pioneer, was born on 3 February 1859 in Rheydt, today a borough of the city of Mönchengladbach. His father owned a cotton weaving mill, ensuring the […]
The first month of 2025 is already over and that means it is about time to start preparing for this year´s air show season. Therefore, as every year, we will tell you about some upcoming […]
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