Last week, Boeing announced the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded the company a contract worth 240 million USD to remanufacture five MH-47G Block II Chinook rotorcraft. The deliveries were set to begin […]
On 28th March 1910, an experimental floatplane developed by Henri Fabre, performed its first flight marking the aviation history with the first successful take-off of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft from water. The first floatplane in […]
In 1979, the California-based Robinson Helicopter Company began production of its first helicopter, the R22, which entered the market later that year. The small, two-seat rotorcraft was powered by a single engine and featured two-bladed […]
On 17th March 2025, the fifth edition of the French military space exercise – codenamed AsterX 2025 – began at Centre national d’études spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies – CNES), Toulouse Space Centre. Organised […]
Mudry CAP 10B (c/n 122, F-GOUM, formerly ´122´ of the French Air Force), flying display at Flugtage Fricktal-Schupfart 2018, Schupfart, July 2018. In 1958, the French aviation enthusiast and professional pilot, Auguste Mudry, founded his […]
In the last few weeks, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) performed a few interesting operations with Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter in extreme weather conditions. They included two cold […]
On 21st March 1971, the new British multi-purpose helicopter, designated Westland Lynx, performed its first flight. Development process focused on creation of the new British rotorcraft, named WG.13 and intended for both civil and military […]
With March already here, the first signs of spring made it clear that grey and gloomy days are over, and it was finally the time to launch the 2025 season. And, similarly to 2022, for […]
John Lightfoot Trollope, a British air ace of the Great War, was born on 30 May 1897 in Wallington, Surrey. Trollope was attending college when the war broke out, but he managed to enlist at […]
Wright Flyer III (replica), flying display during the 21st edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2011. On 17th December 1903, near Kill Devil Hills in the vicinity of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, […]
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